Passer Domesticus
Passer domesticus
In going thru a colony of Cliff Swallows two years ago, I found two sets of eggs of the English Sparrow. The sparrows had taken possession of the nests of the swallows when the outside walls were finished and furnished the interior to suit their own taste -- a lining of a few straws, on which were laid, in one, a set of five eggs, in the other a set of six eggs.
A half block from my house in Santa Rosa, on Lincoln Street, is a row of small maples at the edge of the sidewalk. On the third tree from the corner of Morgan Street, there is a rotten stub two feet long with a woodpecker hole at the top end. In passing by on my way to work, last month, I several times flushed a bird from this stub, and was about ready to make a night attack on same, when one morning in passing by, I again flushed the bird. It stopped this time and perched in the tree close to the nest so that I got a good look at her. My desire to make the climb up the tree and cut off the stub for something rare was chilled. It was a female Passer domesticus.
H. F. DUPREY
Santa Rosa, California
