Class ir. TREE SPARROW. 



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early in the fpring, make their neds under the 

 eaves of hoiifes, in holes of walls, and very often 

 in the nells of the martin, after expelling the own- 

 er. Linn^us tells us (a tale from Albertus Mag- 

 nus) that this infult does not pafs unrevenged ; 

 the injured martin aflembles its companions, who 

 affift in plaiftering up the entrance with dirt ; 

 then fly away, twitterin^^ in triumph, and leave 

 the invader to periih miferably. 



They will often breed in plumb-trees and apple- 

 trees, in old rooks's nefts, and in the forks of 

 boughs beneath them. 



3^9 



Pafierinus. Gefner a^v. 656. 



AUr. av. II. 261. 



Olina, 48. 



■Wii. orn. 252. 



Rait fyn. a-v, 87. 



Ednv. a'v. 269. 



PafTere Montano. Zlnan. 81. 

 Fringilla montana. Lin. fyji, 



324- 

 Faun. Suec, fp, 243. Scopoli^ 



No, 221. 



Skov-Spurre. Brunnich, 267. 



Le Moineau de Montagne, Feldfpatz, Rohrfpatz. Kram, 

 Pafier montanus. Brijfon 370. Frifch^ I. i. 

 a^v. III. 79. Br Zool. 109. 



Grabetz- Scopoli, No. 220'. 



128. Tree 

 Sparrow. 



THIS fpecies is inferior in fize to the com- 

 mon fparrow. The bill is thick and black: 

 the crown of the head ; hind part of the neck ; 

 and the lefler coverts of the wings, of a bright 

 bay : the two firft plain ; the lafl fpotted witti 

 black : the chm black ; the cheeks and fides of 

 the head white, marked with a great black fpoc 



beneath 



