Alternative names for Sparrows

[Lloyd Nielsen <>]

"SPRAG is the form especially common in Queensland. My earliest record 
is 1981, but, once again, presumedly earlier."
As kids on the Darling Downs (SE Qld) in the late 1940s and early 1950s, 
we often referred to sparrows as "Sprags" (as well as "sparrows"). I can 
remember my father using the term. He was born in 1914 so it would have 
been in use in that area well before the late 1940s.
Lloyd Nielsen
Mt Molloy  Nth Qld

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