KUNG!,. SV. VET. AKADEMIENS HANDLINGAR. BAND 47. V<> 5. 109 



Specimens with swelled genital organs were found al Kagio as well at fche end of 

 .Jan. as two nionths låter, at Njoro in the låter pari of Febr. But on theacaria-steppc 

 round Itiolu river (hese sparrows had just fledged youngs the Eirst days of Febr. Their 

 propagation appears thus to be lively but somewhat irregular. 



This Sparrow is one of the widely distributed northeastern lönns. 



Passer rufocinctus Fsch. Rchw. 



Rchw. III. p. 211. 



At Juja fann I bad the opportunity of studying these Sparrows a little, and found 

 them to behave exactly like our Common Sparrows in Europé and they appear in some 

 respects almost as a representative of Passer äomesticus extending southward into the 

 Massai-country. As I did nöt see it further north f. i. in the thornbush, where otherwise 

 the Somali-fauna was do minating, I cannot count it to that fauna, but rather as an Eas1 

 African bird extending into Somaliland. It may, however, be possible, that it is confined 

 to the neighbourhood of native settlements, and such were missing in the Guaso Nyin 

 country, because the Rendile manyattas, and the temporary bornas of the Samburus can- 

 not be counted as such. 



Petronia pyrgita (Heugl.). 



Rchw. III. p. 245. 



Iii the thornbush north of Guaso Nyiri in rocky places. A pair was secured not 

 far above Chanler Falls 16 / 3 1911. 



It is to be found all the way from Bogos to Pangani and thus one of the widely 

 distributed northeastern birds. 



Auripasser emini (Hartl.). 



Rchw. III. p. 248. 



I shot specimens of this kind in the thornbush north of Guaso Nyiri below Chanler 

 Falls, and in a small mountain pass densely overgrown with thornbush. Only a small num- 

 ber, two or three, were seen each time. 



The first primary of this bird is very well visible, which fact tends to completely 

 blöt out the differences between Fringillidce and Ploceidce. 



It is one of the widely distributed northeastern birds. 



Poliospiza striolata (Rupp.). 



Rchw. III. p. 256. 



In bushes near cultivated fields outside Nairobi this species was found to be common, 

 and in similar localities it was also observed in many other places as for instance at Punda 

 Melia, Fort Hall, Kagio, Kutu etc. 



A specimen shot at Rooruka river i U had swelled testidés. 



