Dead Sea sparrow underparts are grey-white. The female is like a small house sparrow, with a streaked brown back, greyish head and buff-white underparts. She is paler and smaller billed than the house sparrow, and sometimes shows yellow on the neck sides. The eastern race "P. m. yatii" is sandier, and the male has a yellow wash to the underparts. The chirping song resembles those of house and Spanish sparrows, but is softer. The flight call is a high-pitched "chi-wit". This species is often silent. As its name suggests, is a breeding bird around the River Jordan, Dead Sea, and into Iraq, Iran
The Dead River (novel) of the two lovers. Like the other novels of Jakov Xoxa (notably ""White Juga"" ), it encompasses a vast number of characters and is also imbued with the realism of pre-World War II Albania, in which the main story is set. It is one of the few works of early socialist realism in Albania which contains literary merits. As many works of that period, it used the Soviet literary model of Sholokhov's "And Quiet Flows the Don". The Dead River (novel) The Dead River (originally in Albanian ""Lumi i Vdekur"") is the title of the first novel written by the