212 
Queen’s County, Ireland, in 1822; and a few 
specimens have since been obtained in England 
and Ireland. Singular as it may appear, Sabine’s 
Snipe does not seem even yet to have fallen into 
the hands of any Naturalist out of the British 
Islands, and consequently very little is known of 
its habits. It is at once distinguished from every 
other European species of Snipe, by the total 
absence of white from its plumage, or of any of 
those lighter tints of ferruginous yellow which 
extend more or less in stripes along the head and 
back of them all. 
SPARROW, HOUSE. 
ComMon SPARROW. 
Frineinta DoMEStTIca, Lin. 
The House Sparrow, the boldest and most fami- 
liar of our small birds, is generally dispersed in 
Great Britain and Ireland, residing in towns, 
villages, farm-buildings, and seldom betaking itself 
to places remote from human habitations. In 
autumn and winter the Sparrows, usually in large 
flocks, search the fields for grain and seeds, after 
committing in the former season considerable havoc 
among wheat. Stackyards and dunghills are their 
favourite places of resort at all seasons. They 
build their nest in any convenient locality, at a 
