BRITISH BIRDS, 



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and five or six broods in the season, are either '' romancin;^," 

 or do not know what they are talking about. 



Tree Sparrow. — Is not unlike the last in appearance, 



but he has some black on the face as well as on the 

 throat, and is greyer on the back and lower parts ; he 

 is also a little smaller. The nest is usually placed in 



