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creatures noxious to agriculture, and Train (vol. ii. p. 160) 
describes how in 1833 he charmed the Sparrows from a 
wheat-field at Laxey, to the surprise and confusion of all 
who doubted his power. 
The House Sparrow is found over Orkney and Shet- 
land, even on Foula and Fair Isle, In the Outer Hebrides, 
where it seems to have arrived comparatively recently, it 
is, as in the Scottish Highlands, by no means ubiquitous. 
It is found all over Ireland, though in some districts locally, 
and, with perhaps some exceptions, over the Scottish Low- 
lands and England. 
PASSER MONTANUS (LUinn.). TREE 
SPARROW. 
On 22nd October 1887 Mr. R. Clyne reported from Lang- 
ness (Report on the Migration of Birds, 1887, p. 100), ‘ Large 
flock of Larks and a few Tree Sparrows at 8 A.M.’ 
On 5th January 1896 a specimen, now in possession of 
Mr. W. Rh. Teare, Ballabeg, was obtained at ‘ Road Island’ 
by Mr. Leach out of a small flock, and he has on other 
occasions observed the species in Douglas neighbourhood, 
On 5th July 1902, when cycling from Peel to Douglas, Mr. 
Graves saw two ‘Tree Sparrows, his attention being drawn 
to them by the call of the male. They were seated on 
the telegraph-wires between the road and railway-line at 
Kirby (Braddan). The grounds of Kirby, just beyond the 
line, contain a considerable (for the Isle of Man) number 
of old trees (Zool., 1903, p. 313). 
On 22nd June 1903 Mr. Graves further observed two or 
three specimens at Ballamoar (Patrick), where there are 
