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TREE SPARROW. 



MOUNTAIN SPAEROW. 



Passer montanus, RAY. 



Pyrgita montana, FLEMINO. 



Fringilla montana, PENNANT. MONTAGU. 



Loxia hamburgia, GMELIN. 



Passer A Sparrow. Montana Appertaining to mountains. 



Mons A mountain. 



THIS is an interesting bird, of just sufficient rarity to 

 make its acquisition generally acceptable; while not so 

 uncommon as to fall to the lot of but few to obtain, or to 

 run the risk of extermination itself, so far as our country at 

 least is concerned. It is also one of peculiarly neat appearance, 

 though altogether destitute of any pretensions to outside show 

 'simplex rnunditiis' elegantly neat. There are who might 

 borrow a lesson even from the Tree Sparrow, and it is, if 

 they would learn it that they are 'when unadorned, adorned 

 the most.' 



It is indigenous in most countries of Europe, from the 

 Mediterranean, through Spain, Italy, France, and Holland, to 

 Norway and Sweden, and extends also over a considerable 

 portion of Asia, being common, it is said, in Siberia and 

 Lapland, as also in Japan and China, and in some of the 

 mountainous parts of India. 



In Yorkshire, and no doubt in other northern counties, it 

 breeds. It is not unfrequent near York, and also in several 

 parts of the West Riding near Doncaster, Barnsley, Wake- 

 field, and Leeds. In Worcestershire, I have known this species 

 not very unfrequent in the neighbourhood of Bromsgrove; 

 one I remember to have been shot near Charford brook, and 

 others, 'si rite recorder,' were taken on the winter nights in 



