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    genus Passer comes from a Latin word for small birds. The Cape sparrow has three subspecies. The nominate subspecies Passer melanurus melanurus is found...
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    species was subsequently designated as the house sparrow (Passer domesticus). The name Passer is the Latin word for "sparrow." The genus contains 28 species:...
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    the chestnut sparrow (Passer eminibey), at 11.4 centimetres (4.5 in) and 13.4 grams (0.47 oz), to the parrot-billed sparrow (Passer gongonensis), at 18...
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    her paler or washed-out colour".: 14  Examples include Cape sparrow (Passer melanurus),: 67  rufous sparrow (subspecies P. motinensis motinensis),: 80  and...
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  • sparrow. In the great sparrow, Cape sparrow (Passer melanurus), and southern grey-headed sparrow (Passer diffusus), this crest is more poorly developed...
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    sparrow Passer domesticus Introduced Great rufous sparrow Passer motitensis Cape sparrow Passer melanurus Southern gray-headed sparrow Passer diffusus...
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    virens uncommon House sparrow Passer domesticus rare Cape sparrow Passer melanurus common Southern grey-headed sparrow Passer diffusus rare Lesser masked-weaver...
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    Cape white-eye Zosterops virens rare House sparrow Passer domesticus rare Cape sparrow Passer melanurus common breeder Southern masked-weaver Ploceus velatus...
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    sparrow, Passer domesticus (I) Cape sparrow, Passer melanurus Northern gray-headed sparrow, Passer griseus Southern gray-headed sparrow, Passer diffusus...
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  • sparrow, Passer shelleyi (E) Kordofan rufous sparrow, Passer cordofanicus (E) Cape sparrow, Passer melanurus (E) Northern gray-headed sparrow, Passer griseus...
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    sparrow, Passer domesticus (I) Great rufous sparrow, Passer motitensis Cape sparrow, Passer melanurus Northern gray-headed sparrow, Passer griseus (A)...
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    sparrow, Passer domesticus (I) Great rufous sparrow, Passer motitensis Cape sparrow, Passer melanurus Northern gray-headed sparrow, Passer griseus (A)...
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    sparrow, Passer domesticus (I) Great rufous sparrow, Passer motitensis Cape sparrow, Passer melanurus Southern gray-headed sparrow, Passer diffusus Yellow-throated...
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  • Cape Verde sparrow, Passer iagoensis Desert sparrow, Passer simplex Somali sparrow, Passer castanopterus Cape sparrow, Passer melanurus Yellow-throated sparrow...
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    famosa (malachite sunbird) Passeridae Passer melanurus (Cape sparrow) Passer domesticus (house sparrow) Passer diffusus (southern grey-headed sparrow)...
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  • neergaardi Dusky sunbird, Cinnyris fusca Great sparrow, Passer motitensis Cape sparrow, Passer melanurus Cape longclaw, Macronyx capensis Yellow-breasted pipit...
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  • Africa. House sparrow, Passer domesticus - introduced Great sparrow, Passer motitensis - near-endemic Cape sparrow, Passer melanurus - near-endemic Southern...
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    Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Eliomys melanurus. Wikispecies has information related to Eliomys melanurus....
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    sparrow, Passer domesticus (I) Great rufous sparrow, Passer motitensis Cape sparrow, Passer melanurus Northern gray-headed sparrow, Passer griseus Southern...
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  • night-heron) Onychognathus morio (red-winged starling) Passer domesticus (house sparrow) Passer melanurus (Cape sparrow) Pelecanus onocrotalus (great white...
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  • House sparrow, Passer domesticus Great rufous sparrow, Passer motitensis Cape sparrow, Passer melanurus Northern gray-headed sparrow, Passer griseus Southern...
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  • sparrow, Passer domesticus (I) Spanish sparrow, Passer hispaniolensis Cape sparrow, Passer melanurus (A) Northern gray-headed sparrow, Passer griseus (A)...
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  • sparrow, Passer domesticus (I) Great rufous sparrow, Passer motitensis Cape sparrow, Passer melanurus (A) Southern gray-headed sparrow, Passer diffusus...
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    three vertical white stripes outlined with a fine black line. The first passes just behind the eye, the second in the middle of the body widens forward...
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  • sparrow, Passer domesticus (I) Great rufous sparrow, Passer motitensis Cape sparrow, Passer melanurus Southern gray-headed sparrow, Passer diffusus Yellow-throated...
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    with the newly found (since 1896) 185-grams dwarf cloud rat, Carpomys melanurus, a rare breed (endemic to the Cordillera), and the Koch pitta bird among...
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    Southeast Asian island forms include auriventer (=aureiventer), buxtoni, melanurus and unicus. Race occidentis (now often subsumed into the nominate race)...
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    rattlesnakes are known to use fallen logs as a waiting site for prey to pass by, giving them an elevated perch from which to effectively strike their...
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    the cichlid fish Mayaheros urophthalmus, Petenia splendida and Vieja melanurus, the endemic Poecilia petenensis, crocodiles (Crocodylus moreletii and...
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    dasyurids and, for the Tasmanian devil, the few hours taken for food to pass through the small gut is a long period in comparison to some other dasyuridae...
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