PLATE CLV. 



Paffer domefticus. Rait Syn. p. S6. A. 



Will. Orn.p. 



Bnfs. Orn, 3, p. 72. 1. 



Schaff. EL t. 5S. 



JRoman. Orn. 1. p. 99. /. 16, y. I» 

 PafTer domeftica. Zinnan. Uoo, p. 79. /. 11. /. 70. 



OUn. uc. i. 42, 



Cetti uc. Sard. p. 204-. 

 Rauch-Sperling. Gunth. 'Nejl. u. Ey. t. 57. 

 Le Moineau. Buff. 3. p. 474. /. Qd. / 1. 

 Houfe Sparrow. Or;?. /). 249. /. 44. 



Jlhin. 1 . /. 62. 



The Common Sparrow is worthy of particular obfervation for the 

 Angular diverfity, we might almoft fay the beauty of its phimage ; 

 the male bird efpecially. In the immediate vicimty oi great towns, 

 and cities, thefe familiar inmates of our houfe tops acquire an habi- 

 tual footinefs from their conftant refidence about the fmoky flues of 

 chimnies, the places to which they feem to refort for the fake of 

 warmth; but in the country, where they are more hardy and cleanly,, 

 the fparrows exhibit a brightnefs of colouring that renders their ap- 

 pearance very different from thofe which refide in populous places. 



In its ordinary ftate of plumage no bird can be more generally 

 known than the common Sparrows there are however variations in 

 which its appearance is more ambiguous, particularly thofe of the pied 



kind^ 



