524 FRINGILLID A. 
sustenance, it had been fed by the continued exertions of its 
parents. 
A still more singular accident which occurred to a Spar- 
row was described and figured in the Illustrated London 
News, for January 20th, 1844. 
‘¢'The principal external ornament of the Rotunda, in 
Sackville Street, Dublin, is a richly carved frieze, re- 
presenting the heads of oxen, with festoons of flowers 
pendant from the horns; the frieze running round the en- 
tire building at a great elevation. In the hollow of the 
eye of one of these heads, a Sparrow built its nest. But 
amongst the materials which it employed for that purpose, 
there unhappily chanced to be a woollen thread, with a 
noose at one end. By some accident the poor little fellow, 
unfortunately got his own neck inserted in the noose ; and 
