job THE NATURAL HISTORY 
In Lorraine Black Sparrows are frequently 
found, but the colour perhaps may be only exter¬ 
nal, and the effcd < f lYnoke, fince there are many 
glafs-houks there, which they frequent, hence 
their feathers may be difcoloured. 
T he Sparrow is never found in any places that 
are far from the habitations of men ; they do not 
frequent woods, or large extended plains; but 
like rats, cfUblilh themfelves about our houfes, 
in order to fubfift at our expence. 1 hey infeft the 
corn in the Orknies by thoufands, but were un¬ 
known in Siberia, until the Ruffians attracted 
them by the cultivation of corn. 
As they are very indolent, and very greedy, it 
is upon the labours of others that they wifh to 
fubfift; they frequent our barns, our corn ricks, 
our poultry yards, qnd dove houfes; they follow 
the labourer when he fows, the mowers during 
the harveft, the threfhers in the barn, and obferve 
the poultry when they are fed. They even piercG 
the crops of young Pigeons to take out the grain, 
and prey upon bees, an infeift peculiarly ufeful 
to us. Of all birds they are the moft mifehiev- 
ous, and yet of all the moft difficult to deftroy, 
or to remove. Nothing will diflodge them from 
the places they frequent. They are cunning, 
timid, difficult to be deceived ; they cafily deted 
traps, 
