ItOCK SPABBOW. 



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GRANIVOR^. 

 Fa)7iili/ FMINGILLIDJE. (" Bonaparte. J 



Genus Passer. (^Brisson.J 



Generic Characters. — Beak short, slightly convex, and curved at the tip, 

 the border of the upper mandible slightly overlapping the inferior. Wings 

 medium size, the second primary the longest. Tarsi nearly as long as the 

 middle toe; claws sharp and curved; tail nearly square, and of medium 



size. 



ROCK SPARROW, 



Passer petronia. 



Passer pefronia, 

 " sylvesiris, 

 FringiUa petronia, 



Coccothraustes petronia, 

 Petronia rupestris, 

 *' dir edema, 



Moineau Soulcie, 

 Steinsperling, 

 Pas sera Lagia, 



Ring Sparrow, Foolish, Speckled, 

 and White-tailed Sparroiv, 



SCHLEGEL. DeGLAND. 



Brisson. 



LiNN^us. Gmelin. Latham. 



Keyserling and Blasius. 



Temminck. Schinz. Naumann. 



Cuvier. Lesson. 



Bonaparte. 



MiJLLER. 



Of the French, 

 Of the Germans. 

 Savi. 



Latham. 



Specific Characters. — The tail is large; eacTi of the tail feathers, except 

 the two middle, marked with a round patch of white on the extremity of 

 the inner web ; under tail coverts fawn-colour, with a round patch of white 

 at the extremity of each feather. Li the adult there is a band of yellow 

 across the neck anteriorly. Length six inches; carpus to tip of wing four 

 inches; tail two inches and a half; tarsus nine lines; beak eight lines 

 long, and one inch and a fifth in circumference at its base. 



