Show sparrows anti and birds notwithstanding their attral ivaness i veness in plu plumage marre sud and sweetness swee tuesa la in toner are many of them great thieves when nest building they will steal tho flathers athera fc out of the nests of other birds bird and lire are often inclined to drive og 0 other birds irow w feeding grousl elpa when there is abundance abunda noe um this is ia especially ally true of one of our greatest favorites the robin redbreast who will peck and rtin nm after and drive away birds much bigger than himself very different as the robin and the fhe rov are arc in other things they each other ta ia this on i an barly spring moll morning ning when a little touch of frost baill mode made the surface of tho the earth curth hard hardi I 1 have soon seon a blackbird on a 1 hwa ait at last after great efforts extract wid md this was the pis rial al for a crowd of sparrows who by dint of numbers managed to drive away the blackbird sud and carry the worm to feed their own young oni no doubt cassit magazine |