44 THE BIRDS OF DORSET. 



at Kimmeridge, Milborne St. Andrew's, Houghton, 

 Clenston, Little Bridy, and Weymouth. It was very 

 abundant at Wareham and the neighbourhood during 

 the severe winter of 1886-87. 



TREE-SPARROW. Passer montanus, L. 



Tarrell, ii. p. 82 ; Harting, p. 28; Dresser, iii. p. 597 ; Seebohm, 

 ii. p. 69; Ibis List, p. 51. 



Kesident, but, unlike its congener, the House- 

 Sparrow, its usual abode is far removed from human 

 habitation, although it frequents the farmyards in 

 winter. It prefers the wild and open parts of the 

 country. I have notes of one shot near Blandford 

 and two at Bishop's Caundle (J. C. Dale), one at 

 Ensbury, in March 1861 (J. H. Austen), and one 

 seen at Bloxworth by the Kev. O. P. Cambridge. A 

 small flock was seen at the west end of the Down 

 House plantation, November 30, 1886. 



HOUSE-SPARROW. Passer domesticus, L. 



Yarrell, ii. p. 89 ; Harting, p. 28 ; Dresser, iii. p. 587 ; Seebohm, 

 ii. p. 63 ; Ibis List, p. 5 1 ; Fringilla domestica, Pulteney's 

 List, p. ii. 



A common resident; subject to occasional varia- 

 tion of plumage. Specimens of a buff colour, and 

 others with more or less white about them, have 

 been procured at Winterbourne Kingston, and else- 

 where in the neighbourhood. 



