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Fig. 57. 

 Currant Worm. 



tame and confiding as when he went away is, I 

 think, very remarkable." 



Since the Chippy is the first of the Sparrows 

 to be studied, it will be well to look at him closely 

 in order to see what are his family traits. He has 

 the cone-shaped, seed-cracking Finch bill, — the 

 type we saw approached by those of the Cowbird 

 and Bobolink, but like most Sparrows is not ex- 

 clusively gTanivorous. As a seed-eater he destroys 

 the foxtail and crab grass that disfigure our 

 lawns, and he helps, too, to free our premises from 

 pigweed, chickweed, and knotweed ; while as an 

 insect-eater he does us a 'good turn by eating cab- 

 bage-worms, tent-caterpillars, canker worms, and 



