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their lives to studying tlie beetles and ants, even the mosquitoes. 

 Now in Spain you find none who are interested in such matters." 

 Gregorio sat silent and seemed impressed ; but Caraballo 

 interjected : "AVhy waste time ? These people are not concerned 

 [entrometidos) in such matters." True ; but Gregorio had appeared 

 interested and intelligent ? " Si ! but when folk spent lonely 

 lives among the mountains and never see but a petty hill-village 

 once or twice a year, then intelligence goes to sleep {se pone 

 dormido)." Certainly five minutes later they were both hammer- 

 ing away again at the customary small-talk of the by-ways. 



Types of Spanish Bird-Life 

 SPANISH SPARROW {Passer hispuniolensis {sic], Temm.) 



A bird of the wild woods, never seen in towns ; builds in fonudations of kites' and eagles' nests. 

 Note that Temmiaek's Latin seems a bit "rocky." The specific name might be hispanicus, or 

 perhaps hispaniensis, but hispaniolensis never. That adjective must date from a newer era and from 

 a world then unknown. 



