THE HOUSE SPARBOW.
Sra, — In your i«*ue of yesterday eotno of the merob rs of the Acclimatise i>n Societj, 1 tee, uttemptrcl to ilefrnd th> ho'ise sparrow, •peaking cf him as inMCtirerous by chi ice It it just po>-tible tlieae gjni h>men m&) confound the house gpuriew with an innocent enough bird, the In dgo spirrow -but myowr expericicri ditier tien theirs I ill a vrjelt auo the gum tree-. touud my houae were full of sparrows Hnd their nests, and as I always leave gram spread for th« uae ti n\y fowls a' i daj long ivm^ on (he iliort gra^n, the iU*iTowf hud A fine tune of K. Ihiy ; settled in unall flocks < f >en (o tlii ty xli through the day tedin^ on ibe «h at. A «eekiigo 1 jjr< cured Btins ■tiychnint-, lit golred it, toaked some wheat, and shutting up my fo^la for the day, laid some old bags on the ground and sp'i kled the poisotied wheat over them, and taiu thti iil»-»^ure of tailing up some tweutydtren ipairows who will neither eat gra^e nor cherry in my garden this year a* they did l»t. Their croops wore full of who*t f but sorrow an insect could I tiud in tlio.e I ix^uunod.— Yourn, &o Bokgia.
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Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 690, 16 November 1876, Page 3
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212THE HOUSE SPARBOW. Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 690, 16 November 1876, Page 3
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