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ground in pasture, meadow and by the roadside; eggs four, gray, specked with dull 

 brown; birds not shy; like all our native sparrows, insectivorous and valuable. 







Grass Finch, reduced. 

 Genus PASSEE Bhiss. 



231-000-(192). Passer domesticiis (Linn.). * English Sparrow; European 

 Sparrow ; House Sparrow ; Parasite ; Tramp ; Hoodlum ; Gammon ; Philip 

 Sparrow. 



Imported species; introduced into New York in 1850; introduced into Michigan 

 in 1879, possibly a few years earlier; first seen at the college in 1885; •' first seen 

 at Hubbardston, Ionia Co., 1885" (Prof. C. F. Wheeler); very common already 

 throughout the Lower Peninsula; more common in towns but pushing into the 

 country; noxious species; "like the poor, always with us at Iron Mountain" (E. 



English Sparrow, male 



Female, nat. size original. 



