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them. The Sparrow is fubje£t to great varieties 
of plumage : In the Britifh and Leverian Mufeums 
there are feveral white ones, with yellow eyes and 
bills, others more or lefs mixed with brown, and 
fome entirely black : A pair of white Sparrows 
were fent us by Mr Walter Trevelyan, of St. 
John’s College, Cambridge.— This bird, as feen 
in large and fmoaky towns, is generally footy and 
unpleafmg in its appearance ; but, among barns 
and flack-yards, the cock bird exhibits a very great 
variety in his plumage, and is far from being the 
leaft beautiful of our Britifh Birds. 
