there areneither seeds nor caterpillars. And they visit the farmyards and pick up thegrains of corn, and get them out of the husk with their bills. Often, when the farmer walks into the stackyard, thousands of sparrowsand finches fly out of the stacks in clouds. In Sweden the hen chaffinches, by… … THE HOUSE SPARRuW. There is also another saying about him that has passed into a proverb.When a person is very smartly dressed, he is said by the French to be as gayas a chaffinch. THE HOUSE SPARROW. There is a large family of birds the most familiar to us of any. They are sobold that they will…
Birds -- Juvenile literature
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