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THE SONG SPARROW 



full grown, altho the parent birds, especially the father, may exercise some 

 slight siiper\'ision over them, even while busy with a second nest. 



Tnl.cii 111 Ci-liiinbu 



Photo by O. IS. Jciunilg 



SONG SPARROW'S NEST IN FERN. 



At this rate we should be overrun with Song Sparrows if there were 

 not so manv agencies to hold the species in check. A voung Song Sparrow 



