Viewing page 78 of 83

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

136

[[jarring?]] and getting it in his bill. then the other would do the same keeping it up till it was eaten. One got a piece and ran off with it, another close behind but it was kept. Finally I uncovered part of my face (I was without the glass this time) and one saw me. He sat and looked at me an instant 

[[end page]]
[[start page]]

137

and then they all rose together. I could hear no sound yet he must have communicated with the others in some way. He just sat [[underlined]] perfectly [[\underlined]] still and then rose with the others. I could not see his bill move. Before dinner I spread some pigeon grass that I had around for the sparrows they seemed to