250 
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Var. A. 
+ WHITE 
SPARROW. 
DescripTion. 
VARIETIES. 
Bee Ll Ne Git 
numbers on the neighbouring trees, when they may be fhot by 
dozens, or of night caught in great numbers by a bat fowling- 
net. The flefh is accounted tolerable by many; but far lefs 
efteemed than that of many other birds. 
This Sparrow has no fong, only a chirp or two frequently re- 
peated, and far from agreeable. 
I believe this fpecies to fpread everywhere throughout Europe ; 
and is alfo met with in Egypt, Senegal, Syria *, and other parts of 
Africa and Afia. 
Le Moineau blanc, Bri/. orn. iii. p. 77. A. 
Paffer albus, A/drov. av. ii. pl. in p. 566.—Scop. ann. i. p. 149. 
Br. Muf. Lev. Muf. 
HIS bird has a yellow bill and irides, and the plumage 
wholly white. 
White Sparrows are to be feen both in the Britifh and Leverian 
Mufeums; but the laft contains many varieties SPN to 
or mixed with white. 
The firft, brown above; beneath, dirty white. 
Another, marked as in common, very Pale but fome of the 
quills white. 
A third, the upper parts very pale, almoft white: the under 
parts as in common. 
Fourth, everywhere of a pure white, except a rudiment of 
black on the throat, fhewing it to have been a male. 
® Found at A/eppo.—Rufell’s Alep. p. 70. 
Fifth, 
