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The Indian House Sparrow or the Gauraiya (Passer domesticus indicus) is found in the Indian subcontinent south of the Himalayas, in Sri Lanka, western Southeast Asia, eastern Iran, southwestern Arabia and southern Palestine.[1][2][3] Within India it is the Provincial bird of Bihar.
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The house sparrow is very rarely represented in ancient Egyptian art, but an Egyptian hieroglyph is based on it. The sparrow hieroglyph had no phonetic value and was used as a determinative in words to indicate small, narrow, or bad.[4] An alternative view is that the hieroglyph meant "a prolific man" or "the revolution of a year".[5]
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- ↑ Houlihan & Goodman 1986, pp. 136–137.
- ↑ Wilkinson 1847, pp. 211–212.
