ELACK SPAP-P.OW. 
IpaiTow of the naturalists, it certainly is not 
tf siifFicient blackness to warrant that epithet 5, 
3 say nothing of the orange-red spots, by which 
t is far more distinguished from the usual 
)rown of the Domestic Sparrow, Indeed, in 
^ondon, we often see the Common House 
Sparrows nearly as dark as this bird ; occasion* 
d, as is commonly supposed, by the influence 
if the smoke amidst which thefe birds reside on 
jiir house-tops. 
