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THE TEEE SPAEEOW. 



Passer montanus. 



HE poet has told us that there 

 are people in the world to 

 whom " a primrose on a river's 

 brim" is a primrose, and 

 " nothing 1 more/' and it is 

 equally certain that there are 

 numbers of unobservant mor- 

 tals to whom a (( sparrow" 

 is a " sparrow/' and nothing 

 more, and who are really not 

 aware of the differences of 

 plumage, character, habits, 

 and ways that distinguish the 

 "Tree Sparrow" from his 

 more obtrusive and imper- 

 tinent kinsman, the " House 

 Sparrow." Unlike the Com- 

 mon Sparrow, this bird is 

 extremely timid and wary, 

 making its home and seeking 

 the means for its subsistence 

 often far from human dwell- 

 ings and villages, and building 

 its nest in the holes of trees. 



