COMMON on HOUSE-SPARROW. 
PASSER DOMESTICUS (Linn.). 
Fringilla domestica, Linn. S. N. i. p. 323 (1766); Naum. iv. 
p. 453. 
Passer domesticus, Macg. 1. p. 340; Hewitson, i. p. 209; 
Yarr. ed. 4, 11. p. 89; Dresser, iii. p. 587. 
Moineau domestique, French; Haus-Sperling, German ; 
Gorrion, Spanish. 
Abundant and resident throughout the British Islands 
and the continent of Europe, with the exception of Italy, 
Sicily, Sardinia, and Malta, in which localities it is repre- 
sented by very closely allied forms, viz. Passer italie@ and 
P. saliceti. 
Our Sparrow is seldom met with far from human 
habitations, except during harvest, when it extends its 
ravaging expeditions to great distances. 
