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Carpodacus purpureus (517). Purple Finch. 



Common in flocks during winter, they were exceedingly 

 numerous round Baltimore during the severe season of '92-3. 

 Extreme dates are October 1 ( J 90, Resler) and May 31 ('93, 

 Fisher). At Washington it is given as "common in migra- 

 tions, less so in mid- winter. One was shot September 17 ('87), 

 by H. W. Henshaw. I saw a flock at Great Falls, Md., on 

 September 24-5 ('89), and one was shot on May 13 ('85), by 

 Dr. H. M. Smith" (Richmond). 



" Not known at Hagerstown until May 3, '83, when they 

 swarmed in the town " (Small). 



Passer domesticus. English Sparrow. 



The first English Sparrows brought to this country were 8 pairs, 

 liberated in Brooklyn in the spring of '51, but nothing is known of 

 what became of them. Two years later, 100 were liberated there and 

 the importation was kept up for 80 years, the birds being liberated 

 at widely different points of the country, 2500 or more birds being 

 introduced. 



"In June, '74, a few birds were brought to Baltimore by an Eng- 

 lish Captain and liberated in Franklin Square. These are the first 

 birds we have any knowledge of that came to Baltimore direct" 

 (Baltimore American, August 31, '93). At the following points in 

 Maryland they introduced themselves, 1 and were noted in the fol- 

 lowing order : 



'65 Hancock. '77* Mechanicstown. 



'68 Cumberland. , '77* Union Bridge. 



'70 Williamsport. '78* Frostburg. 



'72* Manchester. '78* Lonaconing. 



'76* Boonsboro. '78 Middletown. 



'75* Oakland. '78* Sharpsburg. 



'76* Clearspring. '79* Burkettsville. 



'76* Hagerstown. '79* Emmettsburg. 



'76* New Windsor. '79* Sandy Springs. 



'76* Smithsburg. '80 Grantsville. 



'76* Taneytown. '80 Salisbury. 



'76* Westminster. * About. 



i For a full account of the introduction, etc., of the English Sparrow, 

 see ''The English Sparrow in North America," by W. B. Barrows, United 

 States Department of Agriculture, Division of Economic Ornithology 

 and Mammalogy, Bulletin No. 1, 1889. 



