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GRANIVOILE. 



Family FRINGILLIDsE. f Bonaparte. J 



Genus Passer. fBrisson.) 



ITALIAN HOUSE SPARROW. 



Passer domesticus cisalpinus. 



Passer domesticus cisalpinus, Schlegel. 



" var. B, Keyserling et Blasius. 



" Italia, Bonapaete. 



" Italicus, Degland. 



Fringilla cisalpina, Temminck. 



Pyrgita Italics, Vieillot. 



Moineau cisalpin, Op the Feench. 



Italianischer Haussperling, Op the G-eemans. 



Passera Reale, Savi. 



" capannaja, Stoe. 



Characters of Variation. — Back, light chesnut and black; top of 

 the head and nape maroon or brown; flanks unicolorous ; the first 

 primary is longer than the third, and very nearly as long as the 

 second, which is slightly the longest in the wing; wings reach 

 more than half way down the tail. Length about six inches. 



It is impossible to resist the fact that the present is 

 only a permanent variety of the Domestic Sparrow. I 

 have endeavoured with the greatest care, by a comparison 

 of specimens, to detect any real specific difference, but 



