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SPECIES OF BIRDS. 
regard to the house sparrow, will shew in what ligW 
Brehm views species : — 
In Siberia there is a house sparrow, the male of which 
very much resembles that in our own country. Tb® 
Pyrgita rustica of Brehm occurs at Greifeswald, 111 
Northern Germany ; it is rather larger than those i 11 
Central Germany, and has a strong hill , flat crOW n > 
short feet, and slightly notched tail. In Central Get" 
many, as at Renthendorf, there are two species °* 
sparrow, viz. the town sparrow, Pyrgita pagorum, and 
the high-crowned sparrow, Pyrgita domestica. Th* 
town sparrow has a rather smaller, and, in winter 
darker coloured bill, f ban the North German species, a 11 ® 
besides, it has a flatly arched croivn, and a rather short 
and straight truncated tail ; the high-crowned sparro"' 
is characterized by its acutely arched crown. All tbes® 
sparrows have a gray stripe across the middle of the crow 1 '’ 
which is least distinct in the high-crowned, and broaden* 
in the Siberian. The house sparrow from the neighbour* 
hood of Trieste, Brchm’s Pyrgita media, is intermedia!® 
as to colour bet ween the German and Italian, for the 
has, with the exception of a small gray spot in the middle 
of the crown of the head, a completely brown colour®® 
croivn : in the form of the bill and skull it resemble* 
the Pyrgita. rustica, found at Greifswald. The Italia® 
sparrow forms two species, viz. Pyrgita cisalpina, an« 
it a la. The first agrees in size, and pretty nearly in forO* 
of bill, with the German high-crowned sparrow, viz- 
Pyrgita domestica; the other, however, is much small® 1- ’ 
the bill more slender, and, it would appear, always 
brown coloured ; in both of them the male has a brou® 
crown. In all the species already noticed, the extre- 
mities of the wings are very short. It is otherwise 
with the following species : The Sardinian, which pi -0 ' 
bably follows the Spanish, and which Brehm, in the 
meantime, names with Temminck, Pyrgita luspatiic «> 
has a very strong bill, arched head, and in the mal®> 
not only, as in all the preceding, a black throat, but al$® 
black spots on the sides of the belly. In the Egypt® 1 ® 
sparrow, Brekm’s Pyrgita cegyptica, the bill is shorter* 
