1922. | Collection of Birds made in the Sudan. 691 upper parts. This is not borne out in our series, and it must be remembered that in Upper Egypt, where it is warmer, male Sparrows assume summer plumage earlier than they do in Lower Egypt. I do not know in what month the material seen by Meinertzhagen was collected.

I suspect that his birds were more advanced than those collected by Flower. In full breeding plumage, a male Sparrow from Lower Egypt is most remarkably different irom a bird in winter plumage.

The races P. d. alewandrinus Madarasz, and P.d. chephronsis Phillips, are indistinguishable from nzloticus.

Passer d. niloticus breeds from the coast of the Mediterranean to, at least, as far south as Halfa. At Abu Hamed, Berber Province, and Merowe, in Dongola, there occur Sparrows which, except for their slightly shorter wings, are identical with niloticus. At the same places, however, P. d. arboreus occurs, and the examples under discussion are probably hybrids.

Passer hispaniolensis hispaniolensis (Temminck).

d. Halfa, Feb. 1921: In January 1911 I shot a Spanish Sparrow at Merowe, Dongola Province, and this, the first example recorded from the Sudan, I assign to the typical race. I have lately, through the courtesy of the Government Entomologist of the Wellcome Research Laboratories at Khartoum, been enabled to examine a series of Passer hispaniolensis collected recently in Dongola Province, and these I find to be all of the eastern race P. h, transcaspicus.

Since my ‘Handlist’ was published I have identified Egyptian winter-shot examples of this eastern race.

Emberiza cesia Cretzschmar.

¢o. Sennar, Jan. 1921.

Serinus leucopygius (Sundevall).

1g, 20. Um Ruaba, Kordofan, Dec. 1920.

Spiloptila clamans (‘l’emminck).

20. Um Ruaba, Kordofan, Dec. 1920.