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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. montanus, of mountains. Fig. 209.) Mounrarin 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 
it pe 
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Fic. 209. — Exotic Sparrows. Lowest one, P. domesticus; next one, P. montanus; reduced. (From Brehm.) 
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 crissum with grayish-brown. 
Bill blue-black ; feet brown. Wing 2.75; tail 2.50. Q differs much as before. Europe; 
naturalized about St. Louis and elsewhere. 
