Hotes from Field and Stunp 
Bird’s-eye View of a Paris Park 
If you are in Paris, do not fail to see the 
man who feeds the birds in the Garden of 
the Tuilleries. Any day you will find him 
there, the center of a little knot of inter- 
ested spectators, talking volubly at a 
crowd of House Sparrows which throng 
about his feet, and even flutter into the 
air to catch the crumbs he tosses to them. 
With the Sparrows are generally a few 
great Wood Pigeons, which perch on his 
head and shoulders. He has gained the 
confidence of the birds in a very wonderful 
manner. But feeding the Sparrows and 
Pigeons is general in the gardens, and 
these birds are trustful of any one who 
brings them crumbs. 
On this side of the Atlantic, we think 
of the House Sparrow as but a noisy 
intruder. In Paris he has the rights of 
long possession. The Pigeons which share 
the parks with him are not the domestic 
bird, but another larger species, the Wood 
Pigeon. They are more solitary and 
weaker flyers than the domestic Pigeon, 
which also occurs in small flocks in the 
city, but is much less in evidence. 
WOOD PIGEONS IN A PARIS PARK 
When the sun comes out after summer 
showers and the air is full of drifting bits 
of white down from the poplar trees, like 
flakes of snow against the blue sky or 
contrasting dark cloud, the Garden of the 
Tuilleries is indeed beautiful. A Starling 
is walking hurriedly about in one of the 
plots of grass, and, as the eye follows it 
from there up to the roof of the Louvre, 
one sees the white rumps' of two or three 
Martins, which, except for this striking 
mark, much resemble Tree Swallows. A 
couple of Blackbirds, suggesting the 
American Robin, but weaker flyers, have 
come from the trees and shrubbery into 
the open. Theirs is the pleasant, un- 
ambitious bird song frequently heard 
from the trees in the Garden. The air 
is cut by shooting Swifts, like our familiar 
Chimney Swift, but larger, and their 
forked tails look as foreign as their harsh 
cry sounds.——J. T. NicHozs, New Vork 
City. 5 
The Bobolink in Montana 
In considering the westward extension 
of the Bobolink’s range, and the western 
states in which it has been observed, 
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