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327. Spar- Le Moineau, Paiffe, ou Mo- Pi. eal. 6. £1. 55. f. 1. 
ROW. 
DEscRIP. 
iffon. Belon av. 361. + Fringilla domeftica. Lin. fpf. 
Paffer. Gefner av. 643. 323. 
Aldr. av. 1. 246. Tatting, Grafparf. Faun. Suec. 
Paffera noftrale. Ofna, 42. Jpi 242d | . 
The Houfe-fparrow. Wil. Danis Graae-Spurre. Norveg. 
orn. 249. Huus-Kald. Br. 264. 
Raii fyn. av. 86. Hauffpatz. Kram. 369. 
Le Moineau franc. Brifoz av. Br. Zool. 11. 300. 
I. 72. 
HE bill of the male is black: the crown of 
the head is grey: under each eye is a black 
fpot; above the corner of each is a broad bright 
bay mark, which furrounds the hind part of the 
head. ‘The cheeks are white: the chin and under 
fide of the neck are black; the latter edged with 
white : the belly of a dirty white: the leffer coverts 
of the wings are of a bright bay: the laft row 
black, tipt with white: the great coverts black, 
outwardly edged with red; the quil-feathers the 
fame: the back fpotted with red and black: tail » 
dufky. 
The lower mandible of the bill of the female is 
white: beyond each eye is a line of white: the 
head and whole upper part are brown, only on 
the back’ are a few black fpots: the black and 
white marks on the wings are obfcure; the lower 
fide of the body is a dirty white. 
Sparrows are proverbially falacious: they breed 
early 
