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wren, and bluebird. This danger we foresaw, and it requires very little 

 foresight today to see that this danger will increase with the increase of 

 the sparrow. Apparently laudable sentiment, which is so loudly calling for 

 the protection of the sparrow, is a mistake made by those who do not 

 properly understand the true merits of the case. We say most emphatically, 

 and in so doing, merely echo the opinions of every thinking ornithologist in 

 America, that, if we care to keep those native birds, of which we have 

 spoken above, with us, we must, at any cost, at least check the increase 

 of the English sparrow. 



Fig. 26. 



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Head of English Sparrow. 



