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sustenance, it had been fed by the continued exertions of its 

 parents. 



A still more singular accident which occurred to a Spar- 

 row was described and figured in the Illustrated London 

 News, for January 20th, 1844. 



" The principal external ornament of the Rotunda, in 

 Sackville Street, Dublin, is a richly carved frieze, re- 

 presenting the heads of oxen, with festoons of flowers 

 pendant from the horns ; the frieze running round the en- 

 tire building at a great elevation. In the hollow of the 

 eye of one of these heads, a Sparrow built its nest. But 

 amongst the materials which it employed for that purpose, 

 there unhappily chanced to be a woollen thread, with a 

 noose at one end. By some accident the poor little fellow, 

 unfortunately got his own neck inserted in the noose ; and 



