In particular, North American authors have often merged the buntings and American sparrow family ( Emberizidae ) – and sometimes the bulk of the nine-primaried oscines – with the split-up Fringillidae as subfamilies of a single massive family.

Now Olga gave to each soldier in her army a pigeon or a sparrow, and ordered them to attach by thread to each pigeon and sparrow a piece of sulfur bound with small pieces of cloth.

According to the vida of the Monge de Montaudon, he received a sparrow hawk, a prized hunting bird, for his poetry from the cour du Puy, some sort of poetry society associated with the court of Alfonso II of Aragon.

They include a Native American in profile and a ribbon reading " Wino Forever " ( originally " Winona Forever ", altered after his breakup with Winona Ryder ) on his right biceps, " Lily-Rose " ( his daughter's name ) over his heart, " Betty Sue " ( his mother's name ) on his left biceps, and a sparrow flying over water with the word " Jack " ( his son's name ; the sparrow is flying towards him rather than away from him as it is in Pirates of the Caribbean ) on his right forearm.

The present life man, O king, seems to me, in comparison with that time which is unknown to us, like to the swift flight of a sparrow through the room wherein you sit at supper in winter amid your officers and ministers, with a good fire in the midst whilst the storms of rain and snow prevail abroad ; the sparrow, I say, flying in at one door and immediately out another, whilst he is within is safe from the wintry but after a short space of fair weather he immediately vanishes out of your sight into the dark winter from which he has emerged.

Species with two male and two female genders include the white-throated sparrow, in which male and female morphs are either white-striped or tan-striped.

They are heavy insects with a body length of up to 100 mm ( 4 in ) excluding their lengthy legs and antennae, and weigh about 20 – 30 g. A captive giant weta ( Deinacrida heteracantha ) filled with eggs reached a record 70 g, making it one of the heaviest documented insects in the world and heavier than a sparrow.

Because of its numbers, ubiquity and association with human settlements, the sparrow is culturally prominent.

The Eurasian Tree Sparrow ( Passer montanus ) is a passerine bird in the sparrow family with a rich chestnut crown and nape, and a black patch on each pure white cheek.

It was in the past classed with the Parulidae ( New World warblers ), but DNA studies suggest that it split early from the other related passerines, prior to the differentiation of the entire New World warbler / American sparrow / Icterid group.

( 1991 ): Recognition of individual neighbors by song in the song sparrow, a species with song repertoires.

This species is a large stocky sparrow, 15 – 17 cm in length, with a strong whitish supercilium and weaker crown stripe.

In his youth Zeluco “ seized it pet sparrow with his hand, and while it struggled to get free, with a curse he squeezed the little animal to death .” Zeluco continually gratifies his vices much to his discredit and dishonor, and, as in The Monk, his sins compound upon themselves culminating in the infanticide of his only son.

During migration, Blue-headed vireos are often found to flock with groups of different sparrow species but never with members of its own species.

For example, " piaf " was a Parisian argot word for " sparrow "; after being taken up by the singer Edith Piaf, this meaning became well known in France and worldwide, and no longer serves the purpose of a secret language.

The game was called 麻雀 (), meaning sparrow in Chinese, which is still the name most commonly used in some southern Chinese languages such as Cantonese and Min Nan, as well as in Japanese.

The myth also claims that Confucius was fond of birds, which would explain the name " mahjong " ( maque 麻雀 = sparrow ).

Tongue-cut sparrow: A washer woman cut off the tongue of a sparrow that was pecking at her rice starch.

" Galbraith claimed that the horse and sparrow theory was partly to blame for the Panic of 1896.

Ricci has tattoos of a lion on her right shoulder blade ( a reference to The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, a favorite novel of hers as a child ), a fairy on the inside of her right wrist, praying hands on her left hip ( this tattoo was originally a bat ), the name " Jack " on her right thigh for a dead pet, a sparrow on her right breast, and a mermaid on her left ankle.

Before the Spanish Sparrow arrived in the Canary Islands and Madeira, the Rock Sparrow was the sole native sparrow.

Grace ; and curiosities such as the stuffed sparrow that was ' bowled out ' by Jahangir Khan of Cambridge University in delivering a ball to T. N.

" Edith Piaf, the French folk icon, performed in a black sheath dress throughout her career: for this habit she was nicknamed “ little black sparrow.

Chapter 11 has an allegory about Hong Meng 鴻蒙 " Big Concealment " or " Silly Goose ", who " was amusing himself by slapping his thighs and hopping around like a sparrow ", which Girardot ( 1983: 110 ) interprets as shamanic dancing comparable with the Shanhaijing below.

'" Galbraith claimed that the horse and sparrow theory was partly to blame for the Panic of 1896.

It appears in Heimskringla, where it is told that the Swedish king Dag the Wise's sparrow was killed by a farmer in Varva.

In the late 1960s and early 1970s the Java sparrow was one of the most popular cage birds in the United States until its import was banned.

It was previously classified in the bunting and American sparrow family, Emberizidae.

After being clean-bowled for a duck by Greg Chappell-the ball deviating in mid-air-he was recalled to bat by umpire Colin Egar who signalled dead-ball, literally ; the ball had deflected off a now-deceased unlucky local sparrow.

In the view of Peter Green, "' Cynthia ' was the pseudonym which Propertius used to indicate his mistress Hostia in his poems ; the girl who wept for her sparrow was ' Lesbia ,' the mistress of Catullus, whose real name was Clodia.

In the original manuscripts, this poem was combined with Catullus 3, which describes the death of Lesbia's sparrow, but the two poems were separated by scholars in the 16th century.

The Spatz ( German for sparrow ) later renamed the Victoria 250 is a four-wheeled microcar that was built between 1956 and 1958

In 1897 Wrea Green suffered a plague of sparrows and the Parish Council agreed to pay a halfpenny for every sparrow, sparrow's egg or rat ’ s tail that was collected.

The Latin word passer, like the English word " sparrow ", is a term for small active birds, coming from a root word referring to speed.

Another of the king's chief men, approving of Coifi's words and exhortations, presently added: " The present life of man, O king, seems to me, in comparison with that time which is unknown to us, like to the swift flight of a sparrow through the room wherein you sit at supper in winter amid your officers and ministers, with a good fire in the midst, whilst the storms of rain and snow prevail abroad ; the sparrow, I say, flying at one door and immediately out at another, whilst he is within is safe from the wintry storm ; but after a short space of fair weather he immediately vanishes out of your sight into the dark winter from which he has emerged.

He became blind in one eye after a childhood accident (" My left eye is blind and jogs like / a milky sparrow in its socket ").

Most of them are migratory and stop on the island either for rest or nesting, such as swans, geese, ducks, lake seagulls, sterna, but there are also more stationary birds like sparrow, siskin, chaffinch, skylark, jackdaw and crow.

Unanalyzable borrowings from foreign languages, like asparagus, or old compounds such as samblind which have lost their iconic motivation ( since one or more of the morphemes making them up, like sam -, which meant " semi -", has become obscure ) are reanalyzed in a more or less semantically plausible way, yielding, in these examples, sparrow grass and sandblind.

like a sparrow enjoying a bath from a garden hose ".

Many birds in other families are also commonly called " finches ", including some species in the very similar-looking waxbills or estrildid finches ( family Passeridae, subfamily Estrildinae ) of the Old World tropics and Australia ; several groups of the bunting and American sparrow family ( Emberizidae ); and Darwin's finches of the Galapagos islands, which provided evidence of natural selection and are now recognized to be peculiar tanagers ( Thraupidae ).

The differences between sparrow species can be subtle.

This sparrow is distinctive even within its genus in that it has no plumage differences between the sexes ; the juvenile also resembles the adult, although the colours tend to be duller.

A great variety of birds can also be seen along the trail-hikers along southern segments may see an Acadian flycatcher, Henslow's sparrow, red-headed woodpecker or hooded warbler while further north white-throated sparrows, ruffed grouse and bald eagles become more common.

Many species of birds can be found in Great Basin National Park, including hawk, sparrow, killdeer, wren, chickadee, eagle, magpie, and swallow.

: The term rock sparrow can also be used to refer to the genus Petronia as whole

Song sparrow nestlings in parasitized nests alter their vocalizations in frequency and amplitude so that they resemble the cowbird nestling, and these nestlings tend to be fed equally often as nestlings in unparasitized nests.

For example, if you hear a song sparrow you may be predisposed to detect a song sparrow in a shrub, or among other birds.

This disease used to kill every year thousands of children: commonly called “ croup ” because it creates fake membranes in the small patient ’ s throat, therefore killing him by suffocation, deserves to be called “ Horrible monster, sparrow hawk of the shadows ” by Victor Hugo in his “ Art of being a grandfather ”.

The bird would then be placed in a small, decorated cage and carried around from house to house and shown in exchange for money or gifts of food and drink ( if a wren could not be found then a sparrow would have to undergo the ritual.

The Java sparrow is considered to be a serious agricultural pest of rice.

In the traditions promoted by KU, the jayhawk is said to be a combination of two birds, “ the blue jay, a noisy, quarrelsome thing known to rob other nests, and the sparrow hawk, a stealthy hunter .”

Most are Central and South American birds that were formerly placed in the American sparrow family ( Emberizidae ), but are now known to be tanagers ( Thraupidae ) closely related to Darwins finches.

Maulana Nasiruddin Umar, a counselor and man of learning, who, in all his life, had never killed a sparrow, now, in execution of my order, slew with his sword fifteen idolatrous Hindus, who were his captives .... on the great day of battle these 100, 000 prisoners could not be left with the baggage, and that it would be entirely opposed to the rules of war to set these idolaters and enemies of Islam at liberty ... no other course remained but that of making them all food for the sword.

Song sparrow, vesper sparrow, and American goldfinch can often be seen in open areas.

One might expect the move to be the mirror image of the vermillion sparrow above ( BWF ).

However, if negation is added to both sentences in the form of the word not ( i. e. A sparrow is not a building and A sparrow is not a bird ), the N400 amplitude to building will still be more negative than that seen to bird.

Around thirty species of birds can be found in the park, including sparrow hawks, kestrels, and tawny owls.