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Show A Home Loving Bird. Direct, evidence of tho return of the samo Individual bird of a migrating species to a particular spot season after season Is not easily obtainable, but N. C. Beers behoves that ho has such cvldcnco concerning a chipping sparrow at Lakewood, N. J., 6ays tho Youth's Companion. A fw years ago he heard a little bird concealed In the top ot a maple uttering a peculiar song which he could not recognize; Tho next season he heard tho same peculiar boos in a tree but a few yards from the orlglnnl point. This time he Identified the bird, which seemed to have learned n song ot Its own. Tho third year ho did not visit Lakewood at tho proper season to meet his little friend, but the fourth year he heard and iiiw It ngalu near the samo spot It appeared always to mako Its summer home In tho trees on an area not more than two acres In extent. |