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TREE SPARROW. 



MOUNTAIN SPARROW. 

 PLATE LXXXII. 



Fasser montanus, . . . E.at. 



Pyrgita montana, . . . Pleming. 

 Fringilla montana, . . Pestnant. MoNTiGTT. 



Loxia Hamhurgia, . . . Gmelin. 



NiDiFiCATiON, 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 



