The Sparrow.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 74, 28 February 1885, Page 4

The Sp arro w.

The Detroit Free Press writes as follows about the sparrow. In this district the remarks would equally apply to ' other small birds which have been successfully— only too successfully -^ acclimatised : '^.tlie sparrow must go. It is said thajt iProyi^ence notes the fall of every sparrow., and if that is so the record»Pg angel will be kept pretty busy, fpr ; Ampriqan people are getting thoroughly mad right through at the mischievous Jittle : bird; It shows the/general eussedness of things that the English sparrow increase and multiply, i while the English lark, that bird of heavenly song, cannot be I ' induced Uhder'ariy circurii'sta'nces to live m our climate. No bird f un. derstaiiids t^e ( 'multiplicatioh iatlle as w.ell as , the, English, sparrow. "A couple of sparrow^ have a. family of thirty,, every , sea^Qn^ They can therefore stand a gppd deal of exterminatfan.,! Philadqlphia ;is solid against the bird and is the centre of the'agitaticn for its extinction. The American > 'Union of Ornithologists discussed die bird and finished by leaving ' t' ; dis " oiF. . The sparrow got inFd AiWeriea under false pretences. It was thought to be' an inject ea^er. ' ! It 'is not; ■ arid ' besides '/its Latin 1 : riahie'' i!s Paster Dome'sttiiis'. This latter, fact, was. not generally known." It isnpt only shown ,now to be that kind of a cuss but also several other kinds. . ,The sparrow must go.