PASSERIDiE. 
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Family PA88ERIDJE. 
Genus PASSER Briss. 
Passer Brisson, Ornith. vol. i. p. 36, vol. iii. p. 71, 1760. Type (by 
tautonymy): Passer domesticus (L.). 
Passer montanus (L.). Tree-Sparrow. 
Distr. —Europe, Africa, China to Celebes. 
Passer montanus montanus (L.). (12-301.) 
Fringilla montana Linn6, Syst. Nat. 10th ed. vol. i.’p. 183, Jan. 1st, 
1758: North Italy. (Fig. Dresser, iii. pi. 178.) 
Distr. —Europe to North Africa. Extra-limital. 
Passer montanus malaccensis Dubois. 
Passer montana malaccensis Dubois, Faune de la Belgique, vol. i. 
p. 574, 1887 : Malacca and Java. 
Distr .—-Formosa to Celebes (Sumatra, Borneo, and Java) *. 
Genus TAViSTOCKA Math. 
Tavistocka Mathews, Birds Austr. vol. vii. p. 434, July 10th, 1919. 
Type (by monotypy): Loxia guttata, Shaw. 
StagonopUura (sic) Caban is, Mus. Hein. vol. i. p. 172, (after Oct. 23rd) 1851 (ex 
Reichenbach, Av. Syst. Nat. pi. lxxv. 1850). Indeterminable. Type (by 
original designation) : Loxia guttata Shaw. (Not Steganopleura Bona¬ 
parte, Consp. Gen. Av. vol. i. p. 456, June, 1850.) 
Tavistocka guttata (Shaw). 
Distr. —East Australia. 
Tavistocka guttata guttata (Slmw). (13-292.) 
Loxia guttata Shaw, Mus. Lever, no. vi. p. 47, Feb. 1st, 1796 : 
Sydney, New South Wales. (Fig. Gould, iii. pi. 86.) 
Fringilla leucocephala Latham, Index Ornith., Suppl. p.xlviii, (after May) 1801: 
Sydney. 
Fringilla lathami Vigors & Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. vol. xv. p. 256, 
Feb. 17th, 1827 : "Sydney. 
Distr. —Queensland and New South Wales. 
Tavistocka guttata philordi (Math.). 
ZoncegirUhus guttatus philordi Mathews, Nov. Zool. vol. xviii. p. 427, 
Jan. 31st, 1912 : Frankston, Victoria. (Fig. Math. xii. pi. 561.) 
Distr. —South Australia and Victoria. 
* It may be well to record that Dr. Alexander Wetmore in 1923 saw a 
thriving colony of a thousand or moro individuals of the domestic Canary ( Serinus 
canarius canarius (L.), which had been released on Midway Island, about the 
Cable Station, and wore completely acclimatized and had been breeding for 
a number of years. 
