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A DESCRIPION OF 
THE SPARROW. (Fringilla domestica.) 
THIS bird is, next to the robin redbreast, the boldest of 
the small feathered tribe which frequent our barns and 
houses : he is a courageous little creature, and fights undaunt- 
edly against birds ten times bigger than himself. Spar- 
rows are accused of destroying a great quantity of corn, 
and in several counties the landlord or farmer puts a price 
on a Sparrow's head ; but the farmer is the person most 
injured by the plan, as the good Sparrows do, in ridding 
land of caterpillars, more than compensate for the loss of 
the grain they destroy. Mr. Bradley in his Treatise on 
Husbandry and Gardening, shows by a calculation, that a 
pair of Sparrows, during the time they have their young 
ones to feed, destroy on an average, every week, three 
thousand three hundred and sixty caterpillars. 
This bird is easily tamed, and will hop about the house, 
