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House Sparrow 
Passer domestious 
Resident, with two distinct groups 
of subspecies. One inhabits most oi 
northern Palearctic, southern one 
occurs in Sudan, Arabia, Tran, south 
ern Turkestan, India and Burma. Wit 
in each geographic variation is cor¬ 
related with environmental factors. 
Hybridizes with migratory Spanish 
Sparrow in Italy, some oases of nort 
Africa, and Aegean Islands. 
Habitat: Commensal with man inhabiting 
cities, towns, villages and farm yards 
and feeding in nearby cultivated land. 
