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1875. S. 0. T. [ (•. e. Keene, S. W. ] Caiitiou to Coues. < Amer. Sjiortsm. Mar. — ?, 1875. 

 Lest the Sparro-ns combino to attack Mm. Henry Ward Beecher later produced a. squib of 

 the same kind. 



1875. Steklixg, E. [Sparrows. Passer domesticns. ] <^Jmer. Si)ortsm. Jsiu.23, 1875. 

 "They are a most pestiferous bird, driving all our native birds away, and at the same time, 

 destroying no insect life that preys upon our roadside trees." 



1875. Steeles'G, E. Those Sparrows [Passer domesticns]. <^Eo(l and Gun, \i July- 

 Si, 1875, p. 266. 

 Repeated spoliation of nests of Eobins and Orioles by the Sparrows. 

 1875. "W. B. C. Sparrows [Passer domesticns]. < Bod and Gun, vi. June 19, 1875, p. 187. 



Ejectment of different birds from their homes by the Sparrows. 

 1875. Wade, J. M. The English Sparrow [Passer domesticns]. <^Fancier's Journal 

 and Poultry JExchange, ii. 1875, p. 638. 

 Itfot seen — title from Gentry. 



1875. "Wade, J. M. Story of a Sparrow [Passer domesticns]. <^Fancier's Journal and 



Foultry Exclumge, ii. 1875, p. 334. 



ISot seen — title from Gentry. 



1876. Axox. [English Sparrows, Passer domesticns, eating crocuses.] <^Jlod and 



Gun, viii. Apr. 29, 1876, p. 71. 



1876, "Bob." [Roberts, T. S.] English Sparrows [Passer domesticns] in [Minne- 

 apolis,] Minnesota. <^ Forest and Stream, yii. Dec. 7, 1876, p. 277. 



1876. "Dog. Whip." My English Sparrows [Passer domesticns]. <iBodandGun,\i\. 

 Feb. 26, 1876, p. 341. 



1876. J. C. K. [History of a tame English Sparrow. ] < Forest and Stream, vi. Mar. 

 2, 1876, p. 52. 



1876. "Major." The Sparrow [Passer domesticns] — A Farmer's Complaint. 

 <^ Moore's Eural New YorTcer, May 6, 1876. 

 Attesting the destruction of measuring-worms by the Sparrows, and the greater destruc- 

 t tion of grain. "The city people kneio when they imported the greedy, fighting songless 



sparrow, that they were introducing one pest to exterminate another." 



1876. MuENCH, F, The European House Si^arrow [Passer domesticns].. <^Fural World, 

 Apr. 19, 1876; reprinted IST. Y. JVeelly Sun, May 24, 1876. 



"Nothing eatable, if possibly accessible, is secure from his attack — garden products, as 

 well as all kinds of fruit, cherries and grapes in particular ; wheat fields . . . what barns, 

 stables and houses contain, if not carefully guarded — wiU become his prey." 



1876. Yais Fleet, W. The English Sparrow [Passer domesticus]. <^ Watsontown 



Record (Watsontown, Northumherland Co., Pa.), Mar. 10, 1876. 



In answer to a pseudonymous article in same paper of Pebruary 11, 1876, being an ex- 

 tended presentation of the pernicious results of introducing the bird into America, much 

 irrefragable evidence being adduced. "I think the above terrible array of evidence will con- 

 vince any one, not absolutely wooden-headed that at no distant day this apparently trivial 

 question will become one of National importance ; and that if some means is not promptly 

 taken to check the unparalelled {sic] increase of this destructive bird, they will become a pest 

 only equalled by the grasshoppers of the "West." The article includes a long letter from Mr, 

 K. Eidgway, to the same effect. Says this ornithologist : "In answer to your inquiry whether 

 I regard the introduction of the European House sparrow into the covintry as likely to prove 

 a benefit, my answer is, most emphatically, that I deeply regret the mistaken policy that 

 caused the importation of this extremely undesirable bird." 



1877. Axon. About the English Sparrow. < Poimlar Science Monthly, No. 64, 1877, 



p. 506. 

 jSTot seen— title from Gentry. 

 1877. Axox. About Sparrows. <^ Scientific American, xxxvii. n. s. 1877. 



Not seen— title from Gentry. 

 1877. Anox. [Brewer, T. M. ?] Another Ornithological Experiment. < Boston 

 paper, name unknown, about June, 1877. 



The anonymous writer, a propos of the introduction of the European Starling into America, 

 takes occasion to enlarge upon the services of tho House Sparrow, and to compare the use- 

 fulness of the two birds in favor of the latter. 



