way south. They will go in the spring when the 
summer birds return. Their homes are in and 
about Labrador. Our winter has no hardship 
for the tree sparrow, and being seed eating birds 
they find in the open country around Pine Hills 
an abundant supply of edible food. In sunshine 
or storm, fair or unfair weather, they drive 
about our streets, dropping into the trees and 
shrubs on our lawns, then to the ground as un- 
expected and suddenly as if dropped from an 
aerial bomb. They travel about in parties from 
fifty to a hundred and more; are abrupt in all 
their movements, quiet, unobtrusive and with all 
are an attractive small bird to have familiar 
touch with. 
March 7, 1915. 
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