298 INSESSORES. PASSER. House -Spa tiro w. 



HOUSE-SPARROW. 



Passer domesticus, Ray. 

 PLATE LIV. Figs. 4. 5. 



Frmgilla domestica, Linn. Syst. 1. p. 323. 36 — Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 925. sp. 36. 



— Lath. Ind. Ornith. v. 1. p. 432. sp. 1. 

 Passer domesticus, Rait Syn. p. 86. A — Will. p. 1132 — Briss. 3. p. 72. 

 Le Moineau, Buff. Ois. v. 3. p. 474. t. 29. f. \.—Id. PI. Enl. 6. f. 1. and 2. 

 Gros-bec Moineau, Temm. Man. d'Ornith. v. 1. p. 350. 

 Haus Sperling, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. v. 3. p. 107 — Frisch. t. 8. f. 1. A. B. 



— Meyer, Tasschenb. Deut. v. 1. p. 156. 

 House-Sparrow, Br. Zool. 1. No. 127- t. 51 — Arct. Zool. 2. p. 382. .9 — 



Will. (Angl.) p. 244. t. 44 — Lath. Syn. 3. p. 248. 1 Id. Supp. p. 163 — 



Lewin's Br. Birds, 2. t. 77 Mont.'Ormih.. Diet. v. 2 — Albin, 1. t. 62 — 



Wale. Syn. 2. t. 215 — Pult. Cat. Dorset, p. 12 Low's Faun. Oread. 



p. 59 Bewick's Br. Birds, 1. p. t. 154 — Shaw's Zool 9. p. 429. t. 64. 



tig. 1. 



This very well known bird may be found in all the culti- 

 vated and inhabited parts of the country, and is reckoned by 

 Low amongst the feathered inhabitants of the northern isles 

 of Scotland, where it abounds to the annoyance of the culti- 

 vator, in the serious destruction of bigg *, the only grain 

 that is reared to any extent in these remote settlements. It 

 is seldom to be seen far from the habitation of man, and is 

 the only bird that ventures, in a general way, to establish 

 its permanent residence amidst the stir and din of towns and 

 cities, where (attracted probably by the superior supply of 

 food) it is even more abundant than in the quiet villages and 

 hamlets. In geographical distribution, it appears confined 

 to the northern provinces of Europe, and Temminck assigns 

 the great chains of the Alps and Pyrenees as its limits to- 

 wards the south ; the Frmgilla cisalp'ma, a species nearly 

 allied, supplying its place in the warmer parts of Europe. 

 The Sparrow is not particular in its choice of a place for 

 nidification, being contented with any hole in a wall, in the 

 thatch, or under the eaves of houses: and frequently dis- 



* Binff, a coarse kind of barley. 



