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increase. Its habits need not be noted, as they are already better known to everyone than 

 those of any native bird whatever. 



T. monta'nus. (Lat. mo«ia«MS, of mountains. Fig. 209.) Mountain Sparrow. Some- 

 what like the last, but smaller and otherwise different. $ : Crown and nape a peculiar pur- 

 plish-brown. Lores, chin, and throat black, the throat-patch narrow and short, not spreading 

 on breast, contrasted with ashy- white on side of head and neck ; ear-coverts blackish. Back 



Fig. 209. — Exotic Sparrows. Lowest one, P. domesticus; next one, P. montanus; reduced. (From Brebm.) 

 and scapulars streaked with black and bay, the streaking reaching to the purplish nape; 

 rump and tail plain grayish-brown. Wings marked much as in P. domesticus, with a black 

 and white bar across tips of median coverts, but also a narrow white bar across tips of greater 

 coverts. Primaries more varied with ochrey-brown on outer webs, forming a basal spot and 

 other edging. Below, ashy-gray, shaded on sides, flanks, and erissum with grayish-brown. 

 Bill blue-black ; feet brown. Wing 2.75 ; tail 2.50. 9 differs much as before. Europe ; 

 naturalized about St. Louis and elsewhere. 



