YOUNG TREE SPARROW. 



THE TREE SPARROW. 



PASSER MONTANUS. 



LOOKING to the close resemblance which this bird 

 presents to the more familiar House Sparrow, it is 

 perhaps not surprising that it is comparatively little 

 known, and by many people entirely overlooked. 

 But there is another reason for its escaping notice, 

 namely, its local distribution as compared with that 

 of its congener. 



Apart from the fact that it prefers the country 

 to town, where it is seldom seen, it is only in certain 



