The Indian House Sparrow (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.
