. British birds in their haunts. Birds -- Great Britain. THE HOUSE SPAEEOW. PASSER DOMESTICUS. Crown and back of the head dark bluish ash ; lore, throat, and front of the neck black; above the eyes a band of unifonn reddish brown, intermixed with a few small white feathers; upper feathers darlc brown, edged with reddish brown ; a single transverse white bar on the wing; cheeks, sides of the neck, and under parts greyish white. Female—head, nape, neck, and breast ash-brown ; above the eye a light yellowish brown streak; rest of the plumage less bright. Length five inches and three-quarters. Egg
. British birds in their haunts. Birds -- Great Britain. THE HOUSE SPAEEOW. PASSER DOMESTICUS. Crown and back of the head dark bluish ash ; lore, throat, and front of the neck black; above the eyes a band of unifonn reddish brown, intermixed with a few small white feathers; upper feathers darlc brown, edged with reddish brown ; a single transverse white bar on the wing; cheeks, sides of the neck, and under parts greyish white. Female—head, nape, neck, and breast ash-brown ; above the eye a light yellowish brown streak; rest of the plumage less bright. Length five inches and three-quarters. Eggs white, spotted and speckled with dark grey and brown. What were the haunts of the Sparrow at the period when men dwelt in tents, and there were neither farmhouses nor villages, much less towns and cities, it were hard to say. Certain it is now that thoroughly wild Sparrows are not to be met with in districts remote from human dwellings and cultivation; they have left the hill-side and forest as if by common consent, and have pitched their tents where man builds, or ploughs, or digs, and nowhere else. In the city, the seaport town, the fishing village, the hamlet, the farmhouse, nay, near the cot on the lone waste and by the roadside smithy, they. 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 Johns, C. A. (Charles Alexander), 1811-1874; Wolf; Wymper. London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
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