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martin’s nest, when the birds will assemble 
in great numbers, each bringing a bit of mud, 
and speedily close the entrance up and thus 
make the sparrow captive, when he dies, of 
PLaTE XLIII: Swallow (3 size). 
course, of starvation. On the other hand, a 
house-martin has been known to build a new 
nest against its old one of the previous year, 
which it found in the possession of an impu- 
dent sparrow, I read the other day of a man 
