536 Unexplored Spain 
their lives to studying the beetles and ants, even the mosquitoes. 
Now in Spain you find none who are interested in such matters.” 
Gregorio sat silent and seemed impressed; but Caraballo 
interjected: “Why waste time? These people are not concerned 
(entrometidos) in such matters.” ‘True; but Gregorio had appeared 
interested and intelligent? “Si! but when folk spent lonely 
lives among the mountains and never see but a petty hill-village 
once or twice a year, then intelligence goes to sleep (se pone 
dormido).” Certainly five minutes later they were both hammer- 
ing away again at the customary small-talk of the by-ways. 
‘Types or SPANISH BiRD-LIFE 
SPANISH SPARROW (Passer hispaniolensis [sic], Temm. ) 
A bird of the wild woods, never seen in towns ; builds in foundations of kites’ and eagles’ nests. 
Note that Temminck’s Latin seems bit ‘“roeky.’’ The specific name might be hispanicus,: or 
perhaps hispaniensis, but hispaniolensis never. That adjective must date from a newer era and from 
a world then unknown. 
