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A CHIPPING SPARROW 



Last summer in New Hampshire, while I was playing, I climbed a tree and 

 heard a noise. I had often climbed the tree before and knew that there was a 

 Chipping Sparrow's nest, but never heard so queer a noise before. When I 

 got up a little higher and got a good view of the nest, I saw a young Chipping 

 Sparrow hanging by one leg. He had evidently fallen out of the nest and got 

 his leg caught in one of the pieces of string the nest was made out of. Another 

 boy and I got a long stick. Some people under the tree held a rug, and we got 

 the young bird safely on the ground. All this time the mother and father were 

 wild. I do not know if the young bird lived or not, but I hope so. — Pendle- 

 ton Marshall (aged ii). New York City. 



[It might interest this correspondent and other readers to make a catalogue of 

 accidents with which birds have been known to meet. The writer saw a nestling Phoebe, 

 a few summers ago, that had been strangled by swallowing one end of a hair, which 

 had evidently been wound around the food given it. The hair was so long that the 

 free end may have caught on some object outside the nest, thus resisting every effort 

 of the young bird to swallow the food attached in this accidental way. — A. H. W.] 



CORRECTION 



In the preceding issue, page 213, read clan for class. 



