in Great Britain during the Nesting-season. ] 27 



Chiefly in the middle and eastern counties of England^ reach- 

 ing as far north as Lancashire and Cumberland^ with a few 

 scattered localities on the eastern side of Scotland. 



Mr. W. D. Crotch has once taken the nest, and caught the 

 hen, in a hole in a thatched roof near Taunton. In Dorset, 

 Mr. H. Groves has found the nest in a tree in a swamp at the 

 mouth of the river Wey. 



The Tree Sparrow breeds regularly in Gloucester, Hereford, 

 Stafford, Shropshire, where " it is common " {Mr. H. Shaw) . 

 Mr. C. S. Gregson considers it not scarce in South and North 

 Lancashire; and he tells me that he has taken the nest near 

 Warrington and near Lancaster, and believes that its range ex- 

 tends to Westmoreland and Cumberland. 



Extremely rare in Scotland. Mr. R. Gray has noticed a 

 pair frequenting a farm in North Berwick all the summer ; 

 Mr. J. R. Pencaitland also marks it as nesting occasionally in 

 this county. Mr. J. Murray and Mr. A. Pullen tell me that 

 it breeds occasionally in Perthshire. Mr. T. Edward has seen 

 eggs which were taken in "the higher parts of Aberdeenshire"; 

 and, in Elginshire, the Rev. George Gordon finds the Tree-Spar- 

 row breeding annually in small numbers in the hedges of the 

 warmer parts of the county, where it appears as a summer 

 visitor. 



Passer domesticus {Leach). House- Sparrow. 



Provinces I.-XVIIL 



Subprovinces 1-38. 



Lat. 50°-61°. " British " type, or general. 



Throughout Great Britain, extending to the western and 

 northern isles of Scotland. 



Fringilla chloris {Temm.). Green Linnet. 



Provinces I.-XVIL 

 Subprovinces 1—35. 

 Lat. 50°-59°. " British " type, or general. 



Breeds as far north as Sutherland {Mr. W. Dunbar) and 

 Caithness {Mr. H. Osborne), but not in the Scottish isles. 



