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Family FRINGILLID^. (Bonaparte.) 
Genus Passer. ( Brisson.) 
Generic Characters . — Beak short, slightly convex, and curved 
at the tip, the border of the upper mandible slightly over- 
lapping the inferior. Wings medium size, the second primary 
the longest. Tarsi nearly as long as the middle toe; claws 
sharp and curved; tail nearly square, and of medium size. 
EOCK SPARROW. 
Passer petronia. 
Passer petronia, 
“ sylvestris, 
Fringillu' petronia, 
6( (C 
Coccotliraustes petronia, 
Petronia rupestris, 
Moineau Soulcie, 
Stein Sperling, 
Passer a Lagia, 
Ping Sparrow, Foolish, 
Speckled, and W'hite-tailed 
Sparroic, Latham. 
Specijic Characters . — The tail is large; each of the tail feathers, 
except the two middle, marked with a round patch of white on 
ScHLEGEL. Degland. 
Bkisson. 
Linn^its. Gtmelin. Latham. 
Keyseeling and Blasids. 
Temminck. Schinz. Naumann. 
CuviEE. Lesson. 
Bonapaete. 
Of the French. 
Of the Germans. 
Savi. 
