Passer donest icu s . 
Lobster Lake, Piscataquis Go., Maine. 
1899. and varied their fly-catching with picking from among pieces 
Sept. 8. of litter and horse-dung in the streets. I think I can say 
(2). that I saw individual identical birds alternately fly-catching 
and picking -up. How can you suggest some closely similar 
bird which I might have mistaken for the English Sparrow? Or 
do you regard flycatching (or catching small prey after the 
manner of flycatchers) as an ordinary occupation of English 
Sparrows? The date of this observation was Sept. 8. 
Copied from a letter to Win. Brewster jrff ^ 
Reginald C. Robb ins, dated 
., S«ybt.28, 1899. 
Boston, Mass 
