HOUSE SPARROW. 521 
INSESSORES. FPRINGILLID 4. 
CONIROSTRES. 
THE HOUSE SPARROW. 
Passer domesticus. 
Fringilla domestica, The Sparrow, PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. i. p- 458. 
- i“ Flouse Bs Montagu, Ornith. Dict. 
i = The 35 Bewicx, Brit. Birds, vol. i. p. 187. 
Pyrgita Ps FTouse x Fiem. Brit. An. p. 83. 
Passer domesticus, #5 a SELBy, Brit. Ornith. vol. i. p- 298. 
Fringilla domestica, 35 = Jewyns, Brit. Vert. p. 134. 
Pyrgita % Common Goutp, Birds of Europe, pt. xvi. 
Fringilla % Gros-bee moineau, TemM. Man. d’Ornith. vol. i. p- 350. 
Or all our British Birds, the Common Sparrow alone is 
found throughout the year, whether in country or town, at- 
tached to, and identified with, the habitations of men; and 
such is the confident familiarity obtained by long inter- 
course, that from the thatch of the cottage of the peasant, 
to the elaborately ornamented architecture of the palace of 
