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Show 1895.] FROM WESTERN SOMALI-LAND. 469 a. d ad. Darar, Sept. 15, 1894. Iris reddish brown ; feet and toes grey. Found by Riippell in the warmer valleys in Abyssinia, but appears to be local, and apparently migratory. Heuglin himself never met with the species, but Mr. Jackson procured it near Lake Baringo, and Dr. Reichenow records it from Ugogo and Igonda. 31. DlNEMELLIA DINEMELLI. Textor dinemelli (Riipp. ex Horsf. MSS.); Heugl. Orn. N.O.- Afr. i. p. 534 (1871); Salvad. Ann. Mus. Genov. (2) i. p. 194 (1884); Shelley, Ibis, 1885, p. 410. Dinemellia dinemelli (Riipp.), Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xiii. p. 506(1890); id. Ibis, 1891, p. 255; Salvad. Mem. R. Accad. Torino, xliv. p. 558 (1894 : Banan); Reichen. Vog. Deutsch-Ost- Afr. p. 178 (1894). a. 2 ad. Dullaat, July 13, 1894. o. d ad. Boholgarshan, July 15, 1894. c. d ad. Hargeisa, July 18,1894. Met with by Heuglin on the Upper White Nile in winter and spring, especially in the country of the Kidj Negroes, from Olibo and Belinian. Antinori procured specimens in August in Shoa. Mr. Jackson found the species as far south as Teita, and it has been procured in the Oseri River in the Kilima-njaro district. Fam. FRINGILLID2E. 32. PASSER SWAINSONI. Passer sivainsoni (Riipp.) ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Genov. (2) i. p. 176 (1884); Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. p. 634 (1871); Oust. t. c. p. 9 (1886); Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xii. p. 334 f 1888); id. Ibis, 1891, p. 257. a. 2 • Sheik Husein, Sept. 26, 1894. Iris dark brown ; angle of mouth yellow; eyes brown. b. o V Sheik Husein, Sept. 26, 1894. Bill black ; legs brown ; iris rich brown. Heuglin says that this Sparrow lives in pairs in Kordofan, on the White and Blue Niles, in Uniamuezi, Abyssinia, Bogos-land, and Takah, and is everywhere resident. It is also the resident Sparrow of Shoa, according to Antinori, and occurs as far south as Ukambani, where it was found by Mr. Jackson. In German East Africa its place is taken by P. diffusus, according to Dr. Reichenow. 33. PETRONIA PYRGITA. Xanthodina pyrgita, Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. p. 627, pi. xxi. fig. 2. CymnorUspyrgita, Heugl. t. c. App. p. cxl; Shelley, Ibis, 1885, |