HOUSE SPARROW. 



INSESSORES. 



CONJROSTRES. 



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FRIXGILLIDAL. 



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. 



Pyrgita House FLEM. Brit. An. p. 83. 



Passer domes/icus^ SELBY, Brit. Ornith. vol. i. p. 298. 



Frinrjilla domestica, ,, JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 134. 



Pyrgita Common GOULD, Birds of Europe, pt. xvi. 



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



OF all our British Birds, the Common Sparrow alone is 

 found throughout the year, whether in country or town, at- 

 tached 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 



