TREE-SPARRO W— CHAFFINCH. 
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Yonge's house at Otterbourne was called " Elderfield.' 
She tells us in " John Keble's Parishes," that the retired 
farmer after whom it was named made it his business to 
exterminate the village sparrows. " He often brought 
them down to one, but always by the next morning the 
sparrow had provided himself with a mate to share his 
Castle Dangerous." 
When John Wilkes retired to his villakin, as he called 
it, at Sandown, among less pleasing anecdotes of his old 
age, we read that " of birds he was so tender, that he was 
accustomed to fasten open boxes filled with corn to the 
branches of his trees." (Adams' " History of the Isle of 
Wight") 
72. Passer montanus. Tree-Sparrow. 
A resident species, but plentiful only in winter in most 
districts in the county, and not so common in the Isle of 
Wight. 
As a breeding species it is distinctly rare, and even 
unknown, in many parts. 
The nest has been found in the New Forest, at Bursle- 
don and Laverstoke. 
Gen US — Fringilla, 
73. Fringilla ccelebs. Chaffinch* 
Chink. Chinker. 
A common resident in all parts of the county and Isle 
of Wight. 
