De atm ne" (EF og 
Fifth, pure white, with a fpot on the crown: the nape of the 
neck, and the back, brown. One like this is alfo in the Britifh 
Maufeum. 
Le Moineau jaune, Bri/. orn. iii. p. 78. a A 
Paffer flavus, Aldr. av. ii. p. 5575 pl. in ditto. YELLOW. 
Lev. Muf. 
HIS is yellow, with a tinge of chefnut on the upper Description. 
parts. ; 
That in the Leverian Mufeum is wholly of a yellow cream- 
colour. 
Te 
Var. C. 
Br. Muf. Lev. Muf. 4 BLACK. 
N the Leverian Mufeum is more than one fpecimen of a Black Description. 
Sparrow : the bill of adeep yellow in one of them.—I believe 
that this variety is full as common as the white one; as I have 
had three brought to me within thefe few years. All of them 
were fhot at Jarge, and therefore could not be the effect of keeping 
in a cage, on improper food. I have likewife two fpecimens of 
white ones, both fhot w//d in the neighbourhood. 
Kka Fringilla 
