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A LETTER in NATURE (vol. xvi. p. 43) calls attention to the destruction of the flowers of the yellow crocus by the sparrow. I have for many years been a cultivator of the crocus, both yellow, white, and purple; this spring they flowed abundantly, the white and purple blooming undisturbed, the yellow picked and torn. My gardener and I talked the matter over but could find no solution of the problem. As this has been my experience in former years, and the fact is now corroborated by general experience, can no naturalist discover the reason, or must it still be left a secret in the bosom of pert little Fringilla domestica?
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H., A. Yellow Crocuses. Nature 16, 84 (1877). https://doi.org/10.1038/016084a0
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