CHIPPING SPARROW 115 



FIG. 57. 

 Currant Worm. 



tame and, confiding as when he went away is, I 

 think, very remarkable." 



Since the Chippy is the first of the Sparrows 

 to be studied, it will be well to look -at him closely 

 in order to see what are his family traits. He has 

 the cone-shaped, seed-cracking Finch bill, the 

 type we saw approached by those of the Cowbird 

 and Bobolink, but like most Sparrows is not ex- 

 clusively granivorous. As a seed-eater he destroys 

 the foxtail and crab grass that disfigure our 

 lawns, and he helps, too, to free our premises from 

 pigweed, chickweed, and knot weed ; while as an 

 insect-eater he does us a good turn by eating cab- 

 bage-worms, tent-caterpillars, cankerworms, and 



