Our Doorstep Sparrow 



TAMING A CHIPPY 



Photographed by Mr. George Wood at the home of Lieutenant Wirt Robinson, in 

 Virginia. Lieutenant Robinson -writes that a pair of Chipping Sparrows placed their 

 nest in the climbing rose bush at the end of the piazza. One of the pair, supposed 

 to be the female, was easily tamed with the aid of bread crumbs, and for three 

 successive years she returned to the piazza, always immediately resuming her habits 

 of familiarity. 



