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Then the Sparrow quietly leaves us, 

 For his notes will not be listened 

 To, while louder strains are sounding 

 From each wood and field and orchard; 

 And. his song is soon forgotten, 

 E'en his name is unremembered 

 Till the sunny days are over; 

 Then he comes again to cheer us, 

 Knowing he will then be welcomed. 

 April 24, 1889. 



A FAIR SIZED SET OF FLICKER'S EGGS. 



NEIL F. POSSON. 



I have read at different times in different periodicals of 

 collectors securing large sets of eggs of the Flicker, but nev- 

 er dreamed that any such good fortune should be mine. 



However, my luck began on the evening of May 22, this 

 year, when I found a Flicker's nest containing four eggs. 

 Fearing lest the nest should be visited by some of the "small 

 boy'^collectors, with which this locality is burdened, I re- 

 turned early next morning with my "egg-scoop" and found 

 that there were now five eggs, which I secured, leaving in 

 their placeltwo Pigeon's eggs and a Kingfisher's. Two days 

 later I visited the nest and found one more Flicker's egg. 

 Just one-week later, June 1st, I again visited the nest and 

 found that two of the "sham eggs" I had put in the nest had 



