BIRD PARADISE 207 



the tone of the call sounding the alarm. As a 

 scavenger the crow ranks among the first. Al- 

 most everything is fish that comes to his net. 



One of the Utica dailies describes the experi- 

 ence of a dog in a short interview with a com- 

 pany of English sparrows. When the ordeal 

 was over the dog no doubt was a ntimber of 

 degrees wiser than he had ever been before. I 

 have seen the same scheme put into operation by 

 the sparrows on my lawn, only the animal dis- 

 ciplined was a squirrel. Last fall my attention 

 was attracted by an unusual noise in the maples 

 front of the church. A little investigation re- 

 vealed the fact that a squirrel had fallen into the 

 hands of a company of English sparrows and 

 they were squaring accounts with him for 

 some of his depredations on their nests earlier in 

 the season. Every bird was shouting at the top 

 of his bird voice, and wings and legs and feet 

 were mixed in a mass completely hiding the 

 squirrel. After the m^l6e had lasted a few min- 

 utes the excited crowd rolled out of the tree like 

 a ball. Down they went to the ground, the 

 squirrel making frantic efforts to escape. He 

 clambered up a tree and out to the old church 



