OUR HOME BIRDS. 
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“ The field-sparrow (Fig. 2) is still another kind, 
though just the size of the chipping sparrow, and 
very much the same 
color, except that its 
bill and legs are red- 
dish-brown. It gets 
here early in April, 
and is usually found 
in fields and or- 
chards, while the 
other sparrows seem 
to prefer the hedge- 
Fig. 2 .-Field-Sparrow. 
rows. They are very 
harmless little creatures, and live principally on the 
seeds of wild plants. In winter they hop around 
the doors and watch for the crumbs that are swept 
out. 
“ At the foot of some brier a tiny nest, lined with 
horse-hair and holding six thickly-speckled eggs, 
announces that two little field-sparrows have set up 
housekeeping, and all around this humble dwelling 
they may be heard chirping somewhat like a cricket. 
Large flocks of them are seen in autumn in the or- 
chards and corn-fields hunting for their favorite 
seeds, but when the severe cold and the deep snows 
come the field-sparrows disappear. 
“Then there are English sparrows, larger than 
