. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. FRINGILLIN^. 179. THE HOUSE-SPARROW. Passer dom^sticus (Linnaeus). The House-Sparrow is generally distributed throughout Great Britain and Ireland wherever human habitations are to be found, except near some of the high moorland farm-houses and a few of the most elevated villages. In proportion as land is brought under cultivation, the Sparrow makes its appearance and rapidly increases, so that it is now established in the Inner Hebrides, the Orkneys, the Shetlands, and other places where it was formerly unknown. As yet the House-Sparrow does no
. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. FRINGILLIN^. 179. THE HOUSE-SPARROW. Passer dom^sticus (Linnaeus). The House-Sparrow is generally distributed throughout Great Britain and Ireland wherever human habitations are to be found, except near some of the high moorland farm-houses and a few of the most elevated villages. In proportion as land is brought under cultivation, the Sparrow makes its appearance and rapidly increases, so that it is now established in the Inner Hebrides, the Orkneys, the Shetlands, and other places where it was formerly unknown. As yet the House-Sparrow does not appear to have reached the Fseroes, but in Scandinavia it occurs, in suitable localities, up to and a little beyond the Arctic circle; while eastward it can be traced across Russia, and along the inhabited portions of Siberia to Daiiria; but not to Japan or China. A smaller and paler race (known as P. indicus, but not considered by the best authorities as entitled to specific distinction) inhabits Cochin, Siam, Burma and the Indian region, as far west as Southern Persia ; whence gradations lead back to the typical bird, which is found almost all over Europe where grain will grow. In Italy, and on the island of Corsica, the representative species is P. italia, the male of which has the crown chestnut instead of grey; but although this species has been found for a considerable distance up the Brenner Pass, it has not yet infringed upon the territory of our bird, which, on the northern. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Saunders, Howard, 1835-1907. London, Gurney and Jackson
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