. The American natural history : a foundation of useful knowledge of the higher animals of North America. le house atop of atall pole, which the country boy who loves birds takes pleasurein erecting for it. Forty years ago thousands of the prairiefarms of the middle West bore these tall monuments to thelove of wild birds which is born in every right-minded boy!And how gracefully the glossy-black Martins used to circleand swoop and gyrate about them. Sometimes the blue-birds took possession of the martin-boxes, and then Georgeor John was troubled; for having designed and erected onhigh a dwelli
. The American natural history : a foundation of useful knowledge of the higher animals of North America. le house atop of atall pole, which the country boy who loves birds takes pleasurein erecting for it. Forty years ago thousands of the prairiefarms of the middle West bore these tall monuments to thelove of wild birds which is born in every right-minded boy!And how gracefully the glossy-black Martins used to circleand swoop and gyrate about them. Sometimes the blue-birds took possession of the martin-boxes, and then Georgeor John was troubled; for having designed and erected onhigh a dwelling especially for the Martins, it seemed morallywrong that they should be forestalled, or crowded out. And then came Ahab, the English sparrow, a homely, ^ Progne subis. Average length, 8 inches. 294 PERCHERS AND SINGERS quarrelsome, low-minded and utterly uninteresting littlewretch, a gutter-rat among birds. Unless coerced with ashotgun, he steals the nesting-boxes of all other small l)irds,driving before him the Martins, bluebirds and many otherswho used to love our company. In the North the Purple. PURPLE MARTIN Martin does not seem to thrive away from the haunts of man,and from many localities it has totally disappeared. The disappearance of this bird from the North is no doubtpartly due to the domineering English sparrow, but whatprobably is the chief cause of its local extermination has al-ready been pointed out—its slaughter for sport and as many portions of the North efforts are being made to in-duce this charming farm bird to return in something like itsformer numbers.
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