Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 673
^BECAUSE- WE[WANT TO KNOW A SPARROW WITH CONSPICUOUS WHITE FEATHERS. Washington, D. C.Dear St. Nicholas : I have read you for manyyears, but I like better than anything in your volumes(that we have saved up) the talks in Nature and Sci- … A CRAWFISH ON THE BANK OF A STREAM. THE VESPER-SPARROW. ence. I have noticed in our yard a sparrow with white in its wings, and with outer tail-feathers of pure white. I wish to know if there are many sparrows like this. I hope you will answer me, for I am sure this is the first one I have seen.…
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