Passer domest icus 
Cambridge 
1399. 
February . 
Mass. February birds in the Garden. 
The cold and snow of the 12th and 13th banished nearly 
all the Sparrows from. our neighborhood. The half dozen or so 
that remained were evidently sore pressed. Two came down the 
chimney of the Museum on the night of the 13th and were found 
next morning in the large room. The others spent the larger 
part of both days in the pigeon loft. This led me to hope 
that the bulk of those which had departed would perish. But 
when the weather moderated on the 15th they began to return 
and by the next day they were apparently as numerous as ever. 
During the first ten days of February they swarmed about the 
suet in the elm at all hours of the day and evidently kept 
away the native birds (even the Chickadees) out after the 
middle of the month they neglected the suet and the native 
birds returned to it. On the 9th they attacked the suet at t 
the Museum for the first time and in considerable numbers but 
we drove them off and they did not return. 
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