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Mountain Sparrow. Some- 



increase. Its habits need not be noted, as they are already better kno\A'n to everyone than 

 those of any native bird whatever. 

 193. T. monta'nus. (Lat. montanus, of mountains. Fig. 209.) 



what like the last, but smaUer and otherwise different. $ : Crown and nape a peculiar pur- 

 phsh-brown. Lores, chin, and throat black, the throat-patch narrow and short, not spreading 

 on breast, contrasted with ashy-white on side of head and neck ; ear-coverts blackish. Back 



FjG. 209. — Exotic Sparrows. Lowest one, P. domesticus ; next one, jf. iiwiUanus ; reduced. (From Brebm.) 



and scapulars streaked with black and bay, the streaking reaching to the purplish nape ; 

 rump and tail plain grayish-brown. Wings marked much as in P. domeaticus, with a black 

 and white bar across tips of median coverts, but also a narrow white bar across tips of greater 

 coverts. Primaries more varied with ochrey-brown on outer webs, forming a basal spot ana 

 otlier edging. Below, ashy-gray, shaded on sides, flanks, and crissum with grayish-brown. 

 BiU blue-black; feet brown. Wing 2.75; tail 2.50. ? differs much as before. Europe; 

 naturalized about St. Louis and elsewhere. 



