90 



40. House Sparrow, Passer domesticus (L.). 



Plate 12, fig. 1—10 (Germany). 



Eggs: Thienemann, Fortpfl., Tab. XXXIV, fig. 15, a— e. Hewitson, 

 I. Ed. I, pi. XLI, fig. 1, 2; 11. Ed. I, pi. XLII, fig. 3, 4; III. Ed. I, pi. LIII, 

 fig. 3, 4. Baedeker, Tab. 12, fig. 7. Taczanowski, Tab. LXX, fig. 1. 

 Seebohm, Br. Birds, pi. 13; id. Col. Fig., pi. 56. Frobawk, Br. Birds, I, 

 pi. IV, fig. 132—143. 



British Local Names: Spadger, Spuckie, Sprug, Craff (Cumber- 

 land). Manx: Jallyn. Welsh: Golfan Aderyn y to. Scotland: Spuig, Spurd. 

 Gaelic: GealhJioun. Erse: Oalun, OealbJian. 



Foreign Names: Bohemia: Vrahec domdci. Denmark: Spurv, Qraa- 

 or Huss-spurv. Finland: Varpunen. France: Moineau commun. Ger- 

 many: Haussperling, Hausspatz. Greece: Spurgitis. Helgoland: Karhfink. 

 Holland: Huismitsch. Hungary: Hdzi vereh. Italy: Passera oUremontana. 

 Norway: Graa- or Hiis-spurv. Poland: Luszczak wrobel. Portugal: Pardal. 

 Russia: Domaschni ivoroboj. Spain: Oorribn, Pardal. Sweden: Grd- 

 spink, Sparf. 



Passer domesticus (L.). Newton, ed. Yarrell, II, p. 89; Dresser, Birds 

 of Europe, III, p. 184; id. Man. Pal. Birds, p. 289; Saunders, Man., p. 179. 

 P. domestica domestica (L.). Hartert, Vog. Pal. Fauna, p. 147. 



Breeding Range: Europe, with the exception of Italy, and the 

 adjacent islands. [Also Siberia and at Tangier.] 

 British Generally distributed over the whole of the inhabited parts of Great 



Isles. Britain and Ireland, but scarce in some of the high -lying villages, and 

 never found at any distance from dwelling-places. It is found also in the 

 Isle of Man, on nearly all the inhabited islands on the west of Scotland 

 (though replaced by the Tree Sparrow on S. Kilda and scarce in the Outer 

 Hebrides), and in the Orkneys, Fair Isle and Shetlands. 

 Con- Although as yet unknown in Iceland and the Feeroes, this obtrusive 



species has established itself in almost every inhabited part of the Continent 

 with but few exceptions. In the Iberian peninsula it is plentiful and not 

 infrequently breeds in the foundations of the nests of the larger raptorial 

 birds, as well as in roofs of houses, etc. To Italy however it is only a 

 rare straggler in the north, but is said to be resident in TJdine; as well 

 as in Istria. In the Balkan peninsula its range extends to Euboea, and 

 it is also found in the Cyclades and Cyprus. Von Homeyer has recorded 

 it from the Balearic Isles, but it is absent from Corsica, Sardinia and 

 Sicily. In northern Europe its range extends in Russia to Archangel and 

 the lower Petschora; in Lapland it is found up to nearly lat. 671" N., and 

 on the northern coast is noted by Pearson from the Pechenga, while in 



tinental 

 Europe 



