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latter with their centres blackish-grey. Greater quills 
blackish-grey, with their outer webs gamboge-yellow. 
Tail, having the middle feathers blackish-grey, margined 
with yellowish-grey ; the outer feathers with their ex- 
terior webs gamboge-yellow. Bull pinkish-white. Legs 
pale wood-brown, tinged with flesh-coloured red. 
Of the female, the upper parts of the body are oil-green, 
tinged with sulphur-yellow. Flanks grey. The yellow 
edging upon the outer webs of the greater quills and 
tail-feathers are not so bright as in the male. 
* Hiouse Sparrow.—Fringilla domestica, Linn. 
PLATE 54. Figs. 4, 5. 
Fringilla domestica, Linn. Syst. 1. p. 323. 36.—Gmel. Syst. 1. p. $25. sp. 36. 
—Lath. Ind. Ornith. v. 1. p. 482. sp. 1. 
Passer domesticus, Raii, Syn. p. 86. A.— Will. p- 182.—Briss. 3. p. 72. 
Le Moineau, Buff: Ois. v. 3. p: 474. t. 29. f. 1.—Jd. Pl. Enl. 6. f 1. and 2. 
Gros-bec Moineau, Temm. Man. d’Ornith. v. 1. p. 350. 
Haus Sperling, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. v. 3. p. 107.—Frisch. t. 8. f. 1. A. B. 
Meyer, 'Yaeschenb. Deut. v. 1. p. 156. 
House Sparrow, Br. Zool. 1. No. 127. t. 51.—Arct. Zool. 2. p. 382. g.— 
Will. (Angl.) p. 244. t. 44.__Lath. Syn. 3. p. 248. 1.—Id. Supp. p. 163.— 
Lewin’s Br. Birds, 2. t. 77.—Mont. Ornith. Dict. v. 2.—Albin. 1. t. 62.— 
Wale. Syn. 2. t. 215.—Pult. Cat. Dorset. p. 12.—Low’s Faun. Orcad. p. 59. 
—Bewick’s Br. Birds, 1. p. t. 154.—Shaw’s Zocl. 9. p. 429. t. 64. fig. 1. 
This very well known bird may be found in all the culti- 
vated and inhabited parts of the country, and is reckoned by 
Low amongst the feathered inhabitants of the northern isles 
of Scotland, where it abounds to the annoyance of the culti- 
vator, in the serious destruction of bigg *, the only grain that 
is reared to any extent in these remote settlements. It is 
seldom to be seen far from the habitation of man, and-is the 
only bird that ventures, im a general way, to establish its 
permanent residence amidst the stir and din of towns and cities, 
where (attracted probably by the superior supply of food) it 
is even more abundant than in the quiet villages and hamlets. 
In geographical distribution, it appears confined to the north- 
* Bigg, a coarse kind of barley. 
