TREE SPARROW. 



TREE SPARROW. 



MOUNTAIN SPARROW. 

 PLATE LXXXII. 



Passer monianus, RAY. 



Pyrgita montana, FLEMING. 



Fringilla montana, PENNANT. MONTAGU. 



Loxia Hamburgia, GMELIN. 



"ATIDIFICATION, it would appear, commences in 

 -ti^l February, and incubation in March, two or three 

 broods being reared in the year. 



The nest is formed of hay, and is lined with wool, 

 down, and feathers. It is loosely put together, and the 

 consequence of this untidiness, the larger straws being 

 left hanging carelessly outside, is that the situation of 

 the nest is betrayed to the prowling bird-nester. The 

 same situation is often again occupied from year to year. 



James Dalton, Esq., of Worcester College, Oxford, 

 informs me that he has taken the nest of this bird from 

 a Sand Martin's hole, near Buckingham. They build 

 in many various situations, most frequently in a hole 

 of a tree, whence their English name, either that formed 

 naturally by decay, or that in which some other bird, 

 such as the Woodpecker, or one of the species, has 

 previously domiciled; sometimes also in old nests that 



