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I SHOULD be glad to know if any of your correspondents have noticed a nesting habit of the house sparrow (Passer domesticus) which I have very frequently observed in this part of New Zealand. In many of the deep cuttings in our roads and in the cliffs upon our river-banks, where the formation is a light pumiceous sand, these birds are in the habit of burrowing holes similar to those of the sand-martin (Hirtindo riparia). In some cases I have found these burrows by measurement to be as much as 6 feet in depth.
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GRANT, G. Nesting Habit of the House Sparrow. Nature 38, 590 (1888). https://doi.org/10.1038/038590a0
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