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Birds of North-west Fohkien. 
If it nests in the Kuatun Mountains it must do so very 
late, as none of those shot by us, including one obtained on 
the 16th May, showed any signs of breeding. I once heard 
a native say that he had found the nest late in the season. 
On previous trips our collectors obtained examples of this 
species in April, May, June, September, and October. They 
told us that on every occasion the birds were in flocks and 
that they were not breeding. 
The soft parts of examples shot at Kuatun are as follows :— 
Iris dark brown ; bill light greenish plumbeous, tipped and 
edged with black ; legs dark greyish pink. 
+ 111. Fringilla montifringilla L. 
Winters in North-west Fohkien. 
-4112. Mtjnia acuticauda Flodgs. 
Obtained at Shao-wu-fu in December 1895. 
4113. Passer montanus (L.). 
Lowlands of North-west Fohkien. It does not occur at 
Kuatun. 
-j-114. Passer rutilans Temm. 
This is the mountain Sparrow of Fohkien. A pair or two 
build in the houses at Kuatun and Upper Kuatun, whence 
we have an egg taken in May 1896. 
I have a clutch of four eggs taken by our men from a 
hole in a tree near the river, a few miles inland of Foochow. 
They resemble some eggs of P. montanus , but are much 
smaller. The ground-colour of three of them is a dirty 
white, and they are thickly streaked and speckled with pale 
sepia-brown over grey underlying blotches. The under¬ 
lying blotches are, in one egg, concentrated about the large 
end; in the other two they occur all over the egg. The 
fourth egg is white, with a cap of sepia-brown blotches over 
underlying inky-grey confluent blotches. A few blotches 
are distributed over the rest of the egg. The shape of these 
eggs is ovate, with a strong tendency to oval. They measure 
0*73 X 0*54, 0*73 x 0*53, and 0*73 x 0*52 (two) inch. 
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