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FRINGILLIDJ3. 



INSESSOJRES. 



CONIROSTRES. 



FRINGILLID^E. 



THE HOUSE SPARROW. 



Passer domesticus. 



Fringilla domestica, The Sparrow, PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. i. p. 458. 



House MONTAGU, Ornith. Diet. 



The BEWICK, Brit. Birds, vol. i. p. 187. 



House FLEM. Brit. An. p. 83. 



SELBY, Brit. Ornith. vol. i. p. 298. 



JENYNS, Brit. Yert. p. 134. 



Common GOULD, Birds of Europe. 

 Gros-bec moineau, TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. vol. i. p. 350. 



Pyrgita 



Passer domesticus, 



Fringilla domestica, 



Pyrgita 



Fringilla 



OF all our British Birds, the Common Sparrow alone is 

 found throughout the year, whether in country or town, 

 attached to, and identified with, the habitations of men ; 

 and such is the confident familiarity obtained by long inter- 

 course, that from the thatch of the cottage of the peasant, 

 to the elaborately-ornamented architecture of the palace of 



