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Genus PASSER Brisson, Orn. iii. 1760, p. 71. 



Type : P. domestic-its (Linn.). 

 Passcr=a, Sparrow in classical Latin. 



Passer domesticus. HOUSE-SPARROW. 



Fringilla domestica Linnceus, Syst. Nat. 1758, p. 183 : 

 Sweden. 



Passer domesticus (Linn.} B. O. 17. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 51 ; 

 SJiarpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xii. 1888, p. 307 ; Sounders, 

 Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 179. 



Domesticus=of. the house. 



Distribution in the British Islands. Resident and almost 

 universally distributed where there are habitations, but 

 absent from some remote parts of the Highlands of Scotland 

 and from certain of the Outer Hebrides, including St. Kilda. 



General Distribution. The House- Sparrow breeds through- 

 out Europe, with the exception of Italy, and in Siberia 

 as far east as Irkutsk and Dauria. It has been introduced 

 into Australia, New Zealand, and the United States, and 

 is represented by allied forms or hybrids in Italy, north 

 Africa, and parts of Asia. 



Passer montanus. TREE-SPARROW. 



Fringilla montana Linncens, Syst. Nat. 1758, p. 183 : 

 N. Italy. 



Passer montanus (Linn.') B. O. U. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 51 ; 

 Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xii. 1888, p. 301 ; Saunders, 

 Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 181. 

 Montanus belonging 1 to the mountains. 



Distribution in the British Islands. Resident : widely but 

 locally distributed in Great Britain, including the northern 

 and western Islands of Scotland. Very local in Ireland. 

 A Winter Visitor from northern and central Europe, arriving 

 in autumn and leaving in spring. 



