A very large Old World or “true”
               sparrow...found in northeastern Sub-
               Saharan Africa.
          
         
            
               Passer gongonensis
            
               (L 7.1")
          
         
            
               Lake Nakuru National Park
            
               18Oct2014
          
         
            
               Passer in Latin means sparrow;
               gongonensis is after the village of
               Gongoni, near Mombasa, Kenya.
          
         
         
            
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               Deng
            
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