PINCH. 47 



Passer domesticus, Raii, 86. A. Will. 182. Bris. iii. 72. Id. 8vo. i. 327. Klein, 



88.1. /d. S<em. 17. t. 18. f. 1. a. b. Id. ov. 29. t. 9. f. 7. ScA<r/. e/. t. 53. 



Roman. Orn. i. 99. t. 16. 1. Faun. Helvet. Gerin. iii. p. 340. 2. iVaf. Mwc. pi. 



329. Robert, ic. pi. 3. 

 Le Moineau, Buf. iii. 474. pi. 29. 1. PI. enl. 6. 1. — complete. Id. 55. 1. — young. 



Hist. Prov. i. 518. Daud. Orn. i. p. 91. pi. 3. — skeleton. 

 Rauch sperling, Gunth. Nest. u. Ey. t. 57. Natnrf. xvii. 96. 



Passera domestica, Zinnan. Uov. 79. 1. 11. f. 70. Olin.uc. t. p. 42. Cett. uc. Sard. 204. 



House Sparrow, Gen. Syn.Yn. 248. Id. Sup. 163. Br. Zool. i. No. 127. pi. 51. Id. 



fol. 107. Jrf. Ed. 1812. 1. p. 456. pi. 58. Arct. Zool. ii. 382. G. Collins Birds, 



pi. 4. f. 1, 2. .Rmm. Alep. p. 70. JFi//. £wg7. 249. t. 44. Albin, i. pi. 62. Cheseld. 



Anat. Cap. v. — skeleton. Bewick, Birds, i. pi. p. 154. Lewin, Birds, ii. pi. 77. 



Walcot, ii. pi. 215. Pm/<. Dors, p. 12. Ornith. Diet. 



LENGTH five inches and three quarters. Bill stout, dusky, 

 with a yellowish base ; irides hazel ; plumage on the upper parts 

 reddish brown, mixed with black ; on the under pale dirty ash- 

 colour; crown of the head the same; between the bill and eye, and 

 round the last black ; chin and fore part of the neck black, a little 

 mixed with grey ; wing coverts chestnut and black mixed, with a 

 paler bar across them ; quills dusky, with rufous edges ; tail deep 

 brown, edged with grey, and a little forked ; legs grey brown. 



The female has much the same markings as the male, but more 

 obscure ; behind the eye a white streak ; no black on the throat ; 

 the under parts dingy white, or flesh-colour, 



This is every where common about our houses, and builds in every 

 place it can find admittance, as under a roof, corner of the brick 

 work, or hole in the wall.* The nest is of slovenly construction' 

 generally a little hay, ill put together, and lined with feathers : the 

 female lays five or six eggs, of a reddish white, spotted with brown ; 

 is known sometimes to build in a tree adjoining to habitations, but 

 then takes more pains with the nest; but will more often drive 

 Martins from their abode, to save the trouble of constructing one of 

 their own : is said to have three broods in a year. 



* A pair of these birds, about twenty years since, built their nest, and hatched the young 

 in the kitchen of an inhabitant of Salisbury, and the old ones were so tame, as to suffer the 

 young ones to be fed, and themselves to be occasionally taken from the nest. 



