Scraps and Facts

For some time, I have been collecting bits of interesting and informative anecdotes and facts concerning the plant and animal world about us. This article, therefore, will not be in the form of a running account, but rather a collection of scraps about familiar animals. Before the year 1850, there was not an English sparrow in the United States; that year eight pairs were imported by the Brooklyn Institute. In Mexico there is a wild turkey that has a habit of sitting in a tree when pursued and...