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end, where they are often more or less eonfluent and even 
form a broad irregular mottled cap. Others again closely 
resemble the egg of P,flavicollis, and are so densely streaked 
and smeared all over with sepia brown as to leave little of 
the ground colour visible. A third type has the ground 
colour a faintly brownish grey, and exhibits a well-marked 
zone of dark sepia brown about the large end, and only a 
few specks, spots, and streaks of the same colour scattered 
over the rest of the surface of the egg. In size they vary 
much — viz., from 0*72 to 0*92 in length, and from 0*55 to 
0 65 in breadth ; but usually they measure about 0*75 by 
0*56. Referring to what Mr. Blyth says of the distinctness 
of Passer russatus I should much like to see fresh specimens 
of this latter, because the yellow tints of the lower surface 
of this species are very fugitive, and I have specimens of it 
which have been for some time exposed to the light which 
correspond exactly with the figures in. the " Fauna 
Japonica.^^ [A. O. H.] 
710. Passer montanus. Linn. 
The Tree-Sparrow of Europe is the House Sparrow of the 
City of Yarkand, where it is almost as familiar and impu- 
dent as the English or Indian House Sparrow. It was 
seldom noticed in the fields or indeed anywhere except in and 
about the houses. In Turki it is called Chum Chuk, [G. H.] 
This species is never met with, as far as my experience 
goes, in Kashmir or Ladak, Kulu, Spiti, Lahul, Garhwal or 
Kumaon, or generally anywhere in the Himalayas west of 
Nipal ; but at Darjeeling this is the common House Sparrow 
during part of the year ; and further east and south, in 
Assam, Tipperah, and Burmah it seems to be the only 
House Sparrow. [A. O. H.'] 
712, Emberiza leucocephala, Gm. 
This species was met with in October in large flocks near 
Sonamarg in the Sind valley. They were flying back- 
wards and forwards and seemed very restless, only settling 
on the ground for a few minutes at a time. They had 
probably been driven down from the pine forests above by 
