Ornithological and Other Oddities 



Australia, the States, and Bermuda all cry out 

 upon him as altogether unprofitable ; which 

 teaches the lesson that it is not acclimatisation 

 which is to be visited with the condemnation it 

 usually meets with nowadays, but the injudicious 

 selection of species which has too often been 

 made. For no better test case could be found 

 than the history of the foreign careers of the 

 expatriated sparrow and goldfinch, although, as 

 usual, we hear more of the ill done than the 

 good. 



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