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Phillips, Variation in English Sparrows. 



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 iJan. 



by Hartert and noted above. My series from Denver run large, 

 while those from Littleton, Colo., are small. New England and 

 South Atlantic birds are large, especially three males from Mt. 

 Pleasant, S. C, but all these differences are too slight to be of much 

 significance. No birds as large as Hartert's maximum have been 

 seen. 



The series lent by the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology was not 

 measured individually. 



Townsend and Hardy in 'The Auk' for 1909, p. 78, give some 

 measurements for English birds and for recent and early New 

 England birds. They notice the smaller size of English birds". 

 They also obtained larger measurements for the bills of recent New 



