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AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE OF MICHIGAN. 



GENUS PASSER BBISS. 



English Sparrow, male. 



Female, nat. size original. 



228-OOO-(192). Passer domesticus (Linn.). * ENGLISH SPARROW; EUROPEAN 

 SPARROW; HOUSE SPARROW; PARASITE; TRAMP; HOODLUM; GAMMON; PHILIP 

 SPARROW. 



Imported species; introduced into New York in 1850; introduced into Michigan in 

 1879; "first seen at Hubbardston, Ionia County, 1885" (Prof. C. F. Wheeler); very com- 

 mon; already throughout the Lower Peninsula; more common in towns but pushing 

 into*the country; noxious species; " like the poor, always with us. at Iron Mountain " 

 (E. E. Brewster); "already at Mackinac Island'' (S. E. White); eats grain, often very 

 extensively, especially peas, vegetables and insects; drives away our native birds; is 

 very filthy about houses; a three cent bounty is thinning its ranks, and often, through 

 incorrect determination, the ranks of other Sparrows, etc. (see bulletin No. 62, Michi- 

 gan Experiment Station, or report of the Michigan State Board of Agriculture, 1890, p. 

 275); breeds abundantly; it is reported that thirty young may be reared fronva single 

 pair in a season; nests about cornices, etc., about houses and concealed places, " often 

 in Grand Rapids in trees, the nests being bulky and open on the side " (R. H. Wolcott); 

 eggs four or five, occasionally six, very rarely nine; soiled white specked with brown. 

 For full account of this bird-pest see excellent report by the United States Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture. 



GENUS AMMODRAMUS SWAIN. 



229-542a-(227). Ammodramus sandwichensis savanna (Wils.). * SAVANNA 



SPARROW. 



Not uncommon; migrant; Dr. Atkins took it May 10, 1882; "not sure that it breeds 

 in Michigan" (A. H. Boies); "Monroe County, but does not breed, seeing a bird in 

 summer is not sure proof that it breeds" (Jerome Trombley); "it is evidently a 

 transient'' (Or. M. Gibbs). 



