they are thoroughly naturalized, while, like other city 
gamins, they take no thought of the morrow, but depend for 
supper upon what they find in the gutters and streets, and 
any food they find is eaten, for nothing comes amiss to 
them. 
Their nest which is a bulky, picbuler alae with its — 
entrance usually at the side, is found in trees, bird boxes, 
electric light frames, recesses in building in fact they are | 
everywhere, in almost any bird building locality. Many 
battles may be observed yearly between the house sparrows © 
and martins, swallows, or bluebirds, often disastrously in 
favor of the sparrows, unless the other birds are aided by a | 
friendly human hand. Next to the cat, the house sparrow 
ranks as an enemy of song birds. If the Northwest keeps 
them in check by wise laws, our song birds will multiply. 
Teachers, and parents should create a sentiment, working 
in harmony with the Humane and Audubon Societies, to 7 
provide ways and means for laws that will exterminate 
these sparrows and homeless cats. — 
These birds are wise in having made the best for thems. 
selves of conditions they found in the New World, and man 
must solve the problem which will balance the evil side of 
their presence here, so that we may yet enjoy their friend- 
liness. In European cities, they learn to feed from man’s 
hands. Tourists near the Louvre in Paris have often been 
amused by the antics of flocks of house sparrows, which 
seem to understand the French expressions of newsboys, 
for the birds flutter about their shoulders and heads, while 
they all talk to each other in French, as the birds snatch 
bits of bread. | 
They cannot be said to have a song, Eee Es be- 
long to the class of song birds, while swallows do not, but 
in the spring they do the best they can to warble. A House 
Sparrow in Cheney, Washington, was once observed sitting 
on a fencepost lost in a frenzy of noise, utterly unconscious 
of a big yellow cat which crouched in a hollow behind him. 
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