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THE BIRDS OF HAMPSHIRE. 
" Nor is the occurrence of this bird in Selborne and the 
neighbourhood a very rare circumstance. 
"A neighbour has two of them stuffed, both of which 
were killed in my grounds, and a fine female was found 
dead on the lawn behind my house in January, 1871, pro- 
bably killed by the intense cold. The late Captain 
Chawner assured me that it is seen not infrequently at 
Newton, and that it has bred there. I have also seen it at 
Chawton. Doubleday states that their favourite food is 
the seed of the hornbeam, and it is not improbable that 
they are attracted to my premises by a remarkably fine 
tree of this species." ^ 
Among other localities, nests have been found in recent 
years at Winchester, Sutton Scotney, Stockbridge, near 
Basingstoke, at Alresford, Liss, Southwick and Woolston. 
Genus — Passer, 
71. Passer domestictts, Honse-Sparrow. 
An abundant resident throughout the county and the 
Isle of Wight. 
It is the happy privilege of those who live in the New 
Forest to be able to walk for a whole day without seeing this 
bird, but in order to perform the feat they must not start 
from a railway station. 
The sparrow is associated in Hampshire with the tw o 
most unlike of all our worthies, who would indeed be 
surprised to see themselves commemorated in the same 
paragraph. All Hampshire people know that Miss 
' Bell's edition of White's Selborne. \'ol. i., p. 32. 
