NOVITATBS ZOOLOGICAE XXVI. 1919. 159 



205. Passer hispaniolensis maltae Hart. = Passer Mspaniolensis maltae. 

 Passer hispaniolensis maltae Hartert, Nov. Zool. 1902. p. 332 (Malta). 



Type : <?, Malta, May 1861 , Charles Wright leg. No. 4. (Per Coll. Bartlett.) 



In the Handlist, v. p'. 248, Sharpe said: "Probably hybrid between 

 P. italiae and P. hispaniolensis. — Salvador! in litt." Perhaps Sharpe mistook 

 a sentence of Salvadori's, but even if the latter thought it probable that the 

 Malta Sparrow which I named is a hybrid between italiae and hispaniolensis, 

 there is certainly no foundation for that belief. To produce hybrids both 

 parents must occur in the same place, and that is not the case in this instance,. 

 All Malta Sparrows are maltae, the true typical hispaniolensis does not live there, 

 and of italiae Despott tells us {Ibis, 1917, p. 305) that he knows of two undoubted 

 occurrences ! Passer hispaniolensis maltae used to be very numerous, but has 

 now become much rarer. Schembri's and Wright's notes about the Malta 

 Sparrows are confused (cf. Despott, I.e.). 



206. Passer indicus Jard. & Selby = Passer domesticus indicus. 



Passer indicv^ Jardine & Selby, III. Orn. iii. pt. viii. pi. 118 and text (1831 — " Continental India "). 



Type : <? ad., " India." Ex. Coll. Jardine. (Per CoU. Bartlett.) 

 The label is marked in Jardine's handwriting : " Type of plate Orn, 

 Ittust." The authors had only one pair ; the female, however, is not in our 

 collection. The late Edward Bartlett bought quite a number of birds from the 

 Jardine Collection, and with the Bartlett Collection of Weaver-birds, Knches 

 and Larks they passed into the Tring Museum. Jardine's type is mentioned in 

 Bartlett's Weaver Birds and Finches, on p. 8 of the article " Passer domesticus." 

 On the dates of Jardine and Selby's III. Orn., see Ibis, 1894, p. 326. 



207. Passer montana taivanensis Hart. = Passer montanus taivanensis. 

 Passer montana taivanensis Hartert, Vog. pal. Fauna, p, 161 (1904 — Formosa). 



Type : (? ad., Daihoku, Formosa, 9. x., collected by a Japanese in Mr. 

 Jonas's service. (No. 448.) 



208. Passer lutilans debilis Hart. = Passer rutilans debilis. 



Passer rviHans debilis Hartert, Vog. pal. Fauna, p. 162 (1904 — ^Kashmir to Sind and Western 

 Himalaya). 



Type : (J, Sind Valley in Kashmir, 19. vii. 1873. Colonel Biddulph leg, 

 No. 7265 g. 



209, Serinus striolatus graueri Hart. = Serinus [Poliospiza) striolatus graueri. 



Serinus striolatus graueri Hartert, Bull. B.O. Club, xix. p. 84 (1907 — Ruwenzori). 



Type : Ruwenzori, 7,000 ft. Rud. Grauer leg. 



(I doubt if the genera Serinus and Poliospiza can be satisfactorily separated, 

 but in no case is the grouping of the Handlist recommendable.) 



