in Great Britain during the Nesting-season. 35 
Chiefly in the middle and eastern counties of England, reach- 
ing as far north as Lancashire and Cumberland, with a few 
scattered localities on the eastern side of Scotland. 
Mr. W. D. Crotch has once taken the nest, and caught the 
hen, in a hole in a thatched roof near Taunton. In Dorset, 
Mr. H. Groves has found the nest in a tree in a swamp at the 
mouth of the river Wey. 
The Tree Sparrow breeds regularly in Gloucester, Hereford, 
Stafford, Shropshire, where “ it is common” (Mr. H. Shaw). 
Mr. C. S. Gregson considers it not scarce in South and North 
Lancashire ; and he tells me that he has taken the nest near 
Warrington and near Lancaster, and believes that its range ex- 
tends to Westmoreland and Cumberland. 
Extremely rare in Scotland. Mr. R. Gray has noticed a 
pair frequenting a farm in North Berwick all the summer; 
Mr. J. R. Pencaitland also marks it as nesting occasionally in 
this county. Mr. J. Murray and Mr. A. Pullen tell me that 
it breeds occasionally in Perthshire. Mr. T. Edward has seen 
eggs which were taken in “the higher parts of Aberdeenshire ” ; 
and, in Elginshire, the Rev. George Gordon finds the Tree-Spar- 
row breeding annually in small numbers in the hedges of the 
warmer parts of the county, where it appears as a summer 
visitor. 
Passer pomesticus (Leach). House-Sparrow. 
Provinces I.-X VIII. 
Subprovinces 1-38. 
Lat. 50°-61°. “ British ” type, or general. 
Throughout Great Britain, extending to the western and 
northern isles of Scotland. 
FRINGILLA CHLORISs (Temm.). Green Linnet. 
Provinces I.—X VII. 
Subprovinces 1-35. 
Lat. 50°-59°. “ British ” type, or general. 
Breeds as far north as Sutherland (Mr. W. Dunbar) and 
Caithness (Mr. H. Osborne), but not in the Scottish isles. 
