FRINGILLA DOMESTICA. 
HO USB SPARROW. 
Generic Character. 
Bill straitj conical^ sharp-pointed. 
Tongue truncated. 
Toes, three before, one behind* 
FRiNQiLLxdomestica; regimibusrectricibusque fuscis, 
corpore griseo nigroque, facie alarum alba 
solitaria. 
House Sparrow. Quill and tail feathers brown ; 
body grey and black, wings with a single 
whitish band. 
Fringilla Domestic a. Lin, Si/st, v. l.p,32S, 6meL 
Si/st. V. 2. p,925. Ind. Om. v.l.p, 433. 
Passer Domesticus. Raii Sj/n. p. 86. 
Le Moineau. Buff. Hist. d'Ois. v. 3. p, 474. PL 
Enl. V.6. f. 1. 
Gros-bec Moineau Temm. Man. Om, ed.2. p, 350, 
House Sparrow. Br. Zool. 8x?o. ed. v. 1. p. 4:56^ 
pi. 57. Arct. Zool. v. 2. p. 382. Lath. 
Syn. V. 3 p. 248. lb. Sup. p. 163. Mont. 
Om. Diet. Bewick Br. Birds, pt. 1 . p. 174. 
Gen, Zool v. 9. p. 429. pi. 64. Jig. 1 . 
JL HIS well known species is too familiar to require 
description ; always attached to the dwellings of men it is 
to be seen equally common in the crowded city as in the 
lonely farm yard ; it may be said to live entirely on the 
industry of man. Its familiar and often obtrusive habits 
must have fallen under the notice of the most inattentive; 
in gardens, orchards, cultivated grounds, and corn-fieldsj 
these birds commit considerable depredations, devouring 
fruit, grain and seeds, in large quantities; during the 
breeding time and while the young are incapable of flight 
they are fed with caterpillars and other insects, which is 
