Show PUGNACIOU3 SPARROWS They Cleared Out a Pair of Robins Ono of Which Committed Suicide 1 have often noticed lie vicious propensities pro-pensities of sparrows but I never know that thclr enmity for other birds such as robins was as great as it is until recently said a suburban resident resi-dent to the writer yoterday A pallet pall-et robins as bus been their custom for several past years last week commenced com-menced building their summer home In an elm tree on the sidewalk In front of my house and the work went bravely on with song and rapid llutter of Mings Suddenly the songs ceased and the work on the nest stopped But It waa not left alone for a band of miserable sparrows attacked It and if possible i were more active In its destruction than I the robins had been In Us construe j tion A few cUivs later the robins bagan another nest In a tall maple tree near bv and the work was pushed rapidly Out a few days since it was evident that something was wrong again There was a great outcry on the part of the robins and an unmusical chatter by pugnacious simrrows The latter were again victorious and at once pro odedud lo demolish Ihe nearly Ilnlshetl nest which work they soon completed feathers etc being scat string gras pr < vl nromlsruously about Tills was tiot all nor the worst for tIme male robin vns seen hanging by a cord fastened lo lui I nook and one wing dead and not ten feet from the place where the nest had been The night attracted the attention of pnsersby but It was so high lint none cared to ascend tho irce to get the bird Being anxious to know the facts ns to t lie reason of the I birds death I spliced my stiff trolling rod with a knife attached to the tip to a long pike pole and with the help of a ladder lad-der and the assistance of a neighbor T succeeded In reaching and cutting the String above the bird An examination showed that a string common wrapping twine ivan I passed through the wing quills around lie neck und knotted so lightly that considerable patience was required to remove It ao that death must have been soon effected The male being dead and the nest destroyed the female hits departed HO that I am no longr favored with their sweet morning and evening songs 1 he queston now Is Whuc killed Cccl fob Ep rttu 1t4itjIijefrunu refllattd do fent or wns1Iie rtceidentahIykcugiit In the string Or ius it lrefltethltnted murder on the part of plotlrni 5pai rows Washingto Star |