Cream-colored courser, crowned sandgrouse,
little green bee-eater, mountain chiffchaff, Arabian babbler,
Palestine sunbird, Isabelline shrike, yellowhammer,
canarios bunting.
According to Dr. Thompson, the house sparrows and field
sparrows of Palestine are a tame,
troublesome, and impertinent generation,
and nestled just where you do not want them.
They stop up your stove and water pipes with their rubbish,
build in the windows and under the beams of the roof,
and will stuff your hat full of stubble in half a day.