PASSERES. 
Earn. ERINGILLID^. 
Bill short, thick at the base, conic, tip acute and entire ; culmen more or less flattened. 
Nostrils round, basal, placed near the culmen; gape smooth. Wings moderately long, the first 
three quills nearly equal. Tail of 12 feathers, not longer than the wing, even or forked. Legs 
and feet stout. Tarsus covered with transverse scutes ; hind toe of medium size. 
Of small size. 
Genus TASSEE. 
Bill very short, compressed towards the tip, tumid at the base ; the culmen flattened. 
Nostrils small, round, placed in a membrane, partly concealed by tufts. Wings with the first 
.three quills subequal, the 1st either shorter than, or equal to, the 2nd. Tail shorter than the 
wings, even at the tip. Tarsus longer than the middle toe and claw, protected by stout transverse 
scales; lateral toes subequal and much shorter than the middle one ; hind claw moderately large. 
PASSES DOMESTICES. 
(THE COMMON HOUSE-SPARROW.) 
Passer domesticus, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 323 (1766); Shelley, B. of Egypt, p. 148 (1872) ; 
Dresser, B. of Europe, pt. 48 (1876) ; Irby, B. of Gibraltar, p. 119 (1875) ; Seebohm, 
Ibis, 1876, p. 114; Newton’s Ed. Yarr. B. Birds, vol. ii. p. 89 (1876). 
Passer indicus, Jardine & Selby, 111. Orn. pi. 118 (1848) ; Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. 
p. 119 (1849); Kelaart, Prodromus, Cat. p. 126 (1852); Layard, Ann. «& Mag. Nat. 
Hist. 1854, xiii. p. 258 ; Horsf. & Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E. I. Co. ii. p. 499 (1856) ; 
Jerdon, B. of lud. ii. p. 362 (1863) ; Blyth, Ibis, 1867, p. 41 ; Holdsw. P. Z. S. 1872, 
p. 464 ; Hume, Nests and Eggs, ii. p. 457 (1874) ; id. Str. Feath. 1873, p. 209 ; Adam, 
t. c. p. 387 ; Ball, ibid. 1874, p. 421 ; Tweeddale & Blyth, B. of Burm. p. 93 (1875); 
Oates, Str. Feath. 1875, p. 156 ; Brooks, t. c. p. 254; Butler & Hume, t.c. p. 496 ; 
Fairbank, ibid. 1877, p. 408 ; Hume <& Davison, B. of Tenass., Str. Feath. 1878, p. 406 ; 
Ball, ibid. vii. p. 222 ; Cripps, t. c. p. 294. 
Pyrgita domestica (Linn.), Hodgs. Zool. Miscel. 1844, p. 84. 
Philip Sparrow, Old English; The Indian House- Sparrow. Gorrion, Spanish; Serial, 
Moorish (Irby) ; Hamsperling, German ; Musch, Dutch ; Pardal, Portuguese ; Gouriya, 
Hind, in North ; C7mn, .STAas (?/mn. Hind, in South ; Charia, Chatta,^exi^a\. •, TJri-pickike, 
Telugu ; Adike lam kiirmi, Tam. (Jerdon) ; Pastro pardal or Pardan, Ceylon 
Portuguese ; Addikalan, lit. “ Sheltering bird,” Tamils in Ceylon. 
Gewal-kurulla, lit. “ House-bird,” Sinhalese ; also Geh-kurulla, Layard. 
