300 INSESSORES. PASSER. TREE-SPARROW. 



back black, deeply edged with pale chestnut-brown. 

 Lesser wing-coverts deep orange-brown, the row im- 

 posed upon the greater coverts having their tips white, 

 and forming an oblique bar across each wing. Greater 

 coverts and quills brownish -black, edged with pale 

 chestnut-brown. Tail clove-brown, margined with yel- 

 lowish-brown. Lower part of the back, and rump 

 yellowish-grey. Belly and vent smoke-grey. Legs 

 wood-brown. 



Fig. 5. The female. Natural size. 



Female. Head and nape of the neck light broccoli-brown. Above 

 the eyes is a streak of straw-yellow. Upper plumage 

 yellowish-brown, inclining to broccoli-brown, with the 

 centres of the feathers darkest. Throat and middle of 

 the belly greyish-white ; the sides dashed with broccoli- 

 brown. 



TREE-SPARROW 



PASSER MONTANUS, Ray. 

 PLATE LV. FIG. 2. 



Passer montanus, Rail Syn. p. 87- 15 Briss. 3. p. 79. 



Fringilla montana, Linn. 1. p. 234. 37 Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 925- sp. 27 



Lath. Ind. Ornith. v. 1. p. 433. sp. 2. 

 Loxia Hamburgia, Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 854. sp. 68. 



Le Friquet, Buff. Ois. v. 3. p. 489. t. 29. f. 2 Id. PI. Enl. 267. fig. I. 



La Hamboureux, Buff. Ois. v. 4. p. 398. 



Gros-Bec Friquet, Temm. Man. d'Ornith. v. 1. p. 354. 



Der Feldsperling, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. v. 3. p. 124. Meyer , Tasschenb. 



Deut. v. 1. p. 158 Frisch, Vog. t. 7. f. 2. male. 

 De Ringmusch, Sepp. Nederl. Vog. p. 79- 

 Hamburgh Tree-Creeper, Albin, 3. t. 24. 

 Hamburgh Grosbeak, Lath. Syn. 3. p. 149. 64. 

 Tree or Mountain Sparrow, Br. Zool. 1. No. 128 Arct, Zool. 2. No. 240. 



Will. (A.ngl.) p. 252. t. 25 Lewies "Br. Birds, 2. t. 78 Lath. Syn. 3. 



p. 252. 2 Id. Supp Don, Br. Birds, 4. t. 88 Bewick's Br. Birds, 1. 



p. 158 Shaw's Zool. 9. p. 432. t. 64. f. 2. 



THIS species is but partially distributed, and far from 

 being abundant, even in those districts where it has long 



