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J U R N A L 



OF TtiES 



BOMBAY 



No. 4.] 



BOMBAY, 1890. 



[Vol. V. 



NESTING- IN WESTERN INDIA. 



By Lieut. H. E. Barnes, F.Z.S. 



(Continued from p. 116.) 



(With a Plate). 



70(3.— THE COMMON HOUSE SPARROW, 



Passer domesticus, Lin. 



The House Sparrow is common everywhere, on the hills as well as 

 on the plains. They are so well known that it is quite unnecessary 

 to say much about them. During the breeding season, which 

 commences in February and continues for some months, they are 

 positively unbearable, on account of the litter they make when 

 constructing their nests. No amount of persecution seems v> 

 deter them from building in a place when they have once made up 

 their minds to it. 



At Decsa, I had a great number of different kinds of birds 

 in a large aviary, which evidently attracted the sparrows and 

 they became a positive nuisance. I refrained from interfering with 

 them, and naturally they took advantage of me. I have since acted 

 towards them in a much less forbearing spirit. There seemed to by 

 a nest in every spot where it was possible to put one-. 

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