206 PASSERINJE. PASSER. CORYTHUS. 
or chimney, or under the eaves, or among the thatch, in short 
in any convenient locality at a considerable height. The nest | 
is bulky, composed of straw, grass, leaves, twigs, and the like, 
with a lining of wool, hair, and feathers. The eggs, from four 
to six, ten or eleven-twelfths long, and about seven- twelfths ! 
in breadth, are greyish-white, marked all over with longitu- j 
dinally oblong spots of pale grey and greyish-black ; but the i 
tints and markings differ extremely. | 
Common Sparrow. Domestic Sparrow. I 
Fringilla domestica, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 323. — Fringilla 1 
domestica, Temm. Man. d’Ornith. i. 350. — Passer domesticus, || 
House Sparrow, MacGillivray, Brit. Birds, i. 340. * 
131. Passer montanus. Mountain Sparrow. 
Male with the upper part of the head chestnut-red ; a band 
over the eye, the auricular feathers, the space before the eye, 
and the throat black ; the sides of the neck, and a collar on 
the nape, white ; the back chestnut mixed with black ; two 
white bands across the wings ; the lower parts whitish. Fe- 
male with the colours similar, but paler. 
Male, . ., 3, iV? o'* Female, 5^. 
Although common on the Continent, this species is rare in 
Britain, where it is met with only in some parts of England. 
Although in its mode of flight and general habits it resembles 
the common species, it differs in several respects, and espe- 
cially in nestling, not in houses, but in holes in decayed trees. 
Tree Sparrow. 
Fringilla montana, Linn. Syst. Nat, i. 234. — Fringilla mon- 
tana, Temm. Man. d’Ornith. i. 354. — Passer montanus. Tree 
Sparrow, MacGillivray, Brit. Birds, i. 351. 
GENUS LXVI. CORYTHUS. PINEFINCH. 
Bill short, stout, bulging at the base, conical, acute ; upper 
mandible with the dorsal line very convex, the sides round- 
ed, the edges gently ascending at the base, then arched, 
slightly festooned, with very slight notches, the tip decimate 
and sharp ; lower mandible with the angle short and wide, 
the dorsal line slightly convex, the back broad, the sides 
convex, the edges somewhat inflected, the tip narrow, but ra- 
ther obtuse. Mouth of moderate width ; tongue short, much 
compressed, concave above toward the end, which is obtuse ; 
oesophagTis dilated into a large crop ; proventriculus oblong ; 
