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®l)e Commoutoealtl) of iHassacljusctt 



STATE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



Wilfrid Wheeler, Commissioner 







DEPARTMENT CIRCULAR No. 4 



February, 1919 



THE ENGLISH SPARROW AND SOME 

 MEANS OF CONTROLLING IT 



EDWARD HOWE FORBUSH 



The house spairow, or English sparrow {Parser domesticus), male and female 



BOSTON 

 WRIGHT & POTTER PRINTING CO., STATE PRINTERS 



32 DERNE STREET 

 1919 



