Dì J. V. MADARÁSZ 
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Petronia dentata (Bund.) 
Xcmthodira dentata, Sund, Öfv. Vet, Ak. Förh. 1850. p. 127. 
Petronia dentata (Sund.) Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. XII. p. 295 (1888); Reichw., Vög. 
Afr. III. p. 246 (1904-1905). 
juv. Abu-Hashim, 7. IL 1911. 
2 cf. Khor-Em-Dul, 16. II. 1911. 
2 Ç . Senga, 5. III. 1911. 
$ . Djerif, 20. IL 1912 (Count Königsegg). 
This species is not enumerated in Butler’s papers and not mentioned 
in the other recent publications embraceing the Ornithology of the Sudan. 
I found this bird not uncommon in the Steppe between the Blue-Nile and 
Dinder. The sexual organes in the specimens preserved were in a full con¬ 
dition, besides the females possess breeding-patch on the went. The bill 
of the males was dark bluish-grey, feet lead colour. Iris dark hazel. 
Petronia brachydactyla. Bp. 
Petronia brachydactyla, Bpt., Consp. Gen. Av. I. p. 513 (1850); Heugl., Orn. N. O. 
Afr. I. p. 624 (1869); Reichw., Vög. Afr. III. p. 243 (1904-1905). 
Caryos'piza brachydactyla (Bp.) Hartert, Vög. paläarkt. Fauna I. p. 145 (1904). 
cf. Khartoum, 22 . I. 1911. 
This male specimen does not agree with typical ones from Asia inas¬ 
much as it has the whole upper parts darker. Tot. length 145, wing 98, tail 
61 mm. 
Probably all the Sudanese birds are similar coloured and from this 
fact they must be separated as a subspecies. 
Butler and the other Authors recently engaged with the Ornitho¬ 
logy of Sudan do not mention this species. I occasionally saw some specimens 
on the sandy desert near Khartoum, of which I could obtain only the above 
male example. 
Passer rnfidorsalis, Brehm. 
Passer rujidorsalis, Brehm, Naumannia, 1856. p. 376; Witherby, Ibis, 1901. p. 246. 
Passer domesticus (nec L.) Flower, Pr. Zook Soc. 1900. p. 957; Butler, Ibis, 
1905. p. 315. 
Passer domesticus rujidorsalis, Brehm, Reichw., Vög. Aír. III. p. 235 (1904- 1905); 
Butler, Ibis, 1908. p. 217. 
cf. Khartoum, 22. I. 1911. 
5 cf, 1 5 . Senga, I—II. 1911. 
cf . Senar, XII. 1911 (Count Königsegg). 
cf. Senga, III. 1912 (Count Königsegg). 
2 cf, 1 Ç,1 juv. Khartoum, III. 1912 (Count Königsegg). 
