Passer montanus malaccensis

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P. m. malaccensis

The Eurasian tree sparrow (Passer montanus) is a passerine bird in the sparrow family. This sparrow breeds over most of temperate Eurasia and Southeast Asia, are mostly found from the southern Himalayas east to Hainan and Indonesia. It is a dark-coloured subspecies, like P. m. saturatus, but is smaller and more heavily streaked on its upperparts.[1]. Within the Autonomous Constituent country of Hong Kong (HKSAR) it is the designate Subnational bird of the Nationalist Hongkongese Devolved Home-State-Local Rule[n 1].

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  1. “The Official designated subnational Hongkongese bird and Awarded Avifaunae emblem of the Hong Kong” respectively