THE ENGLISH SPARROW QUESTION 



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and has been most successful in annexing and holding 

 new territories. Still, if you desire our beautiful and 

 musical native birds to live with you, you must keep 

 down the sparrows. 



Mr. Frank Bond has furnished me the following list 

 of mostly western birds which have been taken in and 

 near the city of Cheyenne, Wyoming. None were 

 taken more than three miles from the city limits. A 

 large number of these birds would be more or less an- 

 noyed by the English sparrow, if that pest had not 

 almost been exterminated at Cheyenne. The numbers 

 refer to the second edition of the Check-List of North 

 American Birds published by the American Ornitholo- 

 gists' Union. 



394a. Gardner's Woodpecker. 



404:. Williamson's Sapsucker. 



406. Red-headed Woodpecker. 



408. Lewis's Woodpecker. 



413. Red-shafted Flicker. 



4-18. Poor-will. 



420a. Nighthawk. 



432. Broad-tailed Humming 

 bird. 



447. Arkansas Kingbird. 



448. Cassin's Kingbird. 



454. Ash-throated Flycatcher. 



457. Say's Phoebe. 



459. Olive-sided Flycatcher. 



462. Western Wood Peewee. 



474c. Desert Horned Lark. 



475. American Magpie. 



4786. Steller's Jay. 



488. American Crow. 



491. Clarke's Nutcracker. 



492. Pinon Jay. 

 495. Cowbird. 



497. Yellow-headed Blackbird. 



498. Bahaman Red-wing. 

 5016. Western Meadowlark. 

 508. Bullock's Oriole. 



510. Brewer's Blackbird. 



5116. Bronzed Grackle. 



514. Evening Grosbeak. 



519. House Finch. 



524. Gray-crowned Leucosticte. 



528. Redpoll. 



529. Holboll's Redpoll. 



530. Arkansas Goldfinch. 



533. Pine Siskin. 



534. Snowflake. 



