Breeding the Bcvi^iicIJa Sparro7v. 



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wcrms alone are too fatteninj^-. Tlie old birds fed them very 

 well, but a week later there were only two left in the nest, and 



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a few days later one of these disappeared. The sm^vivor now 

 IraJ a much greater chance, as it g'ot all the insects its parents 

 cculd catch, as well as those I supplied, and I expected to see H 



