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GRANIVOR^. 
Famihj FRINGILLIDJE. ( Bonaparte. ) 
Genus Passer. ( Brisson.J 
SPANISH SPAEEOW. 
Passer salicarius. 
Passer salicarius, 
Fringilla Bispaniolensis, 
“ sardoa, 
Passer domesticus salicarius, 
Moineau a poitrine Noir, 
Schwarzbrustiger Sperling, 
Passera sarda. 
ViEILLOT. 
Temminck. 
Savi. 
Eeyseeling et Blasius. 
Of the French. 
Of the Germans. 
Savi. 
Specific Characters. — Top of the head deep chesnut or maroon; 
back black, with longitudinal streaks of cream-colour; flanks 
thickly spotted with black on a dirty white ground. The first 
primary the longest in the wing, but nearly equalled by the 
second and third, and all of them longer than the fourth. 
Length about six inches; carpus to tip three inches; tarsus nine 
lines; middle toe and claw eleven lines; beak six lines; tail two 
inches and a half. 
The Spanish. Sparrow has very strong structural 
affinities with the House Sparrow, hut its ornamentation 
and habits are so decidedly different that I think there 
can he no doubt of its specific distinction. Professor 
