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there is an olive stripe; upper parts olive-brown, 
clouded with cinereous and spotted with blackish; 
rump and breast jonquil-yellow, the latter shaded 
with cinereous; there are some dark longitudinal 
markings on the breast and flanks; on the wings are 
two transverse bands, one green-yellow, the other 
brown-yellow; tail slightly forked; belly yellowish 
white, with longitudinal blackish markings; length 
four inches and from four to five lines. The female 
in autumn has the eolours much brighter, the upper 
parts clouded with cinereous, the under parts of a 
dingy yellow, with a great number of longitudinal 
spots. In the spring both sexes have the yellow 
much purer. In the young of the year the yellow 
tints on different parts of the plumage are much 
less pure, especially on the head: in its nesting 
plumage grey and greenish red are the pre- 
dominant colours, dashed with longitudinal brown 
markings.” 
The eggs are white, with a circle of brown and 
reddish dots and spots at the larger end.* 
TREE Sparrow, Passer montanus. The Tree or 
Mountain Sparrow, as it is sometimes called, is by 
no means a common bird in this county. Most of 
the Somersetshire specimens that I have seen have 
been taken in the neighbourhood of Wiveliscombe, 
where it seems to be tolerably numerous. It is 
* Montagu’s Dictionary, by Newman. 
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