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TREE SPARROW. 
MOUNTAIN SPARROW. 
PLATE LXXXII. 
Passer montanus, . ‘ : Ray. 
Pyrgita montana, . ‘ . FLemine. 
Fringilla montana, : : Pennant. Monvtacv. 
Loxia Hamburgia, . . . GmeLin, 
NipiFIcAaTiIon, it would appear, commences in Feb- 
ruary, and incubation in March, two or three broods 
being reared in the year. 
The nest is formed of hay, and is lined with wool, 
down, and feathers. It is loosely put together, and the 
consequence of this untidiness, the larger straws being 
left hanging carelessly outside, is, that the situation of 
the nest is betrayed to the prowling bird-nester. The 
same situation is often again occupied from year to 
year. 
James Dalton, Esq., of Worcester College, Oxford, 
informs me that he has taken the nest of this bird 
from a Sand Martin’s hole, near Buckingham. They 
build in many various situations, most frequently in a 
hole of a tree, whence their English name, either that 
formed naturally by decay, or that in which some other 
bird, such as the Woodpecker, or one of the species, 
has previously domiciled; sometimes also in old nests 
that had been inhabited by Magpies and Crows; and 
