Grass lk, - TREE “SPAR R OM 
early in the fpring, make their nefts under the 
eaves of houfes, in holes of walls, and very often 
in the nefts of the martin, after expelling the own- 
er. Linnzus tells us (a tale from Albertus Mag- 
nus.) that this infule does not pafs unrevenged; 
the injured martin affembles its companions, who 
afift in plaiftering up the entrance with dirt; 
then fly away, twittering in triumph, and leave 
the invader to perifh miferably. 
They will often breed in plumb-trees and apple-. 
trees, in old rooks’s nefts, and in the forks of 
boughs beneath them. 
Pafferinus. Gefner av. 656. _ Paffere Montano. Zivan. Si. 
Aldr. av. Ul. 261. Fringilla montana. Lin. fy/. 
Olina, 48. 324. 
Wil. orn. 252. Faun. Suec. fp. 243.  Scopol, 
Raii fyn. av. 87. No, 221. 
Edw. av. 269. Skov-Spurre. Bruunich, 267. - 
Le Moineau de Montagne, Feldfpatz, Rohrfpatz. Kram. 
Paffer montanus. Brifox goal rijch, J 
av. Ill, 79. Br Zool.-109. - 
Grabetz. Scopolz, No. 220. 
HIS fpecies is inferior in fize to the com- 
mon fparrow. The bill is thick and black: 
the crown of the head; hind part of the neck; 
and the leffer coverts of the wings, of a bright 
bay: the two firft plain; the laft {potted with 
black: the chin black; the cheeks and fides of 
the head white, marked with a great black fpot 
beneath 
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128. TREE 
SPARROW. 
