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Le Moineau de Montagne, Pafler Montanus. £riff! Orn. 3. 79. 
Paffere Montano. Zunan. 81. 
Skov-Spurre. Brun. 267. 
Feldfpatz, Rohrfpatz. Kram. 370. 
Frifch. 1. 1. 
Grabetz. Scopoli, N° 220. 
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This is rather fmaller than the Houle Sparrow. The female is 
duller in colour than the male; and has not the black marks on the 
fide of the head and throat In fome fpecimens the brown colour is 
more intermixed with black, or dark thades, than our bird; this 
change of colour has been often noticed in the Houfe Sparrow, 
which is fometimes quite black. 
We muft confider this as a ocal {pecies ; common in Lancafhire, 
Lincolnfbire, and York/bire only, n this country. It is very common 
in many parts of Europe: in Siveria it is more common than the 
Houfe Sparrow. It frequents trees, and, according to Sepp, builds 
its neftin a hollow. It is compofed of ents, mixed with feathers ; 
and contains five eggs of a pale biown, with fpots of a darker colour. 
Albin fearcely knew this fpecies, from which we may infer, tha; 
it has feldom been taken near the netropolis; he fays, <¢ This bird 
delights in mountainous woody places, not frequented. It was fhot 
by a gentleman in the country, and fent in a letter to me, by the 
name oi the Mountain Sparrow.” Vol. III. p. 62. . 
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