HOUSE SPARROW 63 
at a Dog and Poultry show at Douglas a few years ago, 
and was told that it had been captured in the north of 
the island. 
The Hawfinch has appeared in all quarters of Ireland 
as a rare and irregular winter visitor. It is occasional in 
Cumberland, but said to be resident (very locally) in Lanca- 
shire, Hardly more than a straggler in Scotland, it has 
very rarely been reported from its outer isles. <A local and 
southern species, it is rapidly extending its range. 
PASSER DOMESTICUS (Uinn.). HOUSE 
SPARROW, 
Spapcer. Manx, dallyn (Phillips’s Prayer Book, Ps. lxxxiv. 3). 
(Cf. Irish, Galun, Gealbhan; Sc. Gaelic, Gealbhonn.) Sparroo 
(Hildesley’s Brble, 1772), as if by that time the Gaelic name 
had become extinct in Man. 
The House Sparrow is everywhere an adjunct of habita- 
tion in the Isle of Man, not failing, so far as the writer 
knows, in the most remote districts, nor found away from 
houses, nesting in cliffs, as is sometimes elsewhere the case. 
Thus, on the Calf we noticed it only around the one farm- 
house on the islet. Mr. Graves, who has noticed it on the 
crossing to Liverpool, thinks, however, that it is much less 
common than generally in England. About two hundred 
birds, ‘supposed to be of this species,’ rested all night at 
Point of Ayr (sic) on 16th September 1881, and there was a 
large flock of Sparrows at Langness on 13th October 1884. 
In 1904 Mr. Graves found Sparrows Paves ie in Rooks’ 
nests at Ballamoar, Patrick. 
The great ‘fairy doctor,’ Teare, of Ballawhane, in Andreas, 
was famous for, among other powers, his authority over 
