IM BULLETIN UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SUEVEY. [Yol.Y. 



1878. Anon. ''History Eepeats Itself, But Fools Profit Not Ijj- Its Teacliiiigs." — 

 [Carlyle. <^ Boston Evening Journal, July 19, 1878. 



Authorship unknown, but the style familiar. It reiterates the assertion that the Sparrows 

 "have nobly clone their part of the work" in clestroj-ing orgyia lercostigua [sic]. 



1878. Anon. [Statement of the contiuited efforts of J. Galviu, with a force of 35 

 men, to do what the Si>arrows had been alleged to have done in clearing trees 

 of Orgyia leucostigma. ] <^ Boston Post, July 19, 1878. 



1878. Anon. Notes. < The (N. Y.) Nation, Aug. 8, 1878. 



Reviewing E. Coues's article in The American Naturalist for Aiigust, 1878, with a r6sum6 

 of the points there made. 



1878. Anon. The SparroAvs [Passer domesticus]. < The Country (N. Y.), Aug. 10, 



1878. 



1878. Anon. The English Sj)arrow [Passer domesticus] Question. <^ Evening Tran- 

 script (Boston), Aug. 13, 1878. 

 Copied from the New York Nation of August 8, 1878, q. v. 



1878. Anon. [E, Coues as inimical to the Euroiiean Sparrow.] <^ Scientific Farmer 

 (Boston), iii. No. 9, Sept. 1878. 



"Now that the doctor has classified the friends of the sparrow, who is wise or honest enough 

 to argue the matter ? Plainly, only those who agree with him. "What science ! " 



1878. Appleton, G. L. The English Sparrows [Passer domesticus] in Georgia. 

 < Forest and Stream, Mar. 28, 1878, p. 135. 

 Their arrival at Myrtle Grove, Bryan County, in March, 1878. 



1878. AUGHEY, S. The Enghsh Sparrow [Passer domesticus]. <^ First Ann. Bej). U. S. 

 Entomological Commission, 1877, j). 349. 



"Several persons have advocated the introduction of the English sparrow [in Nebraska], 

 in order to mitigate our insect plagues. Such a policy, it appears to me, would be highly 

 objectionable. . . . Where I have seen this bird in America it has gradually driven oif 

 our native birds. . . . Some years ago, . . . the English sparrows were introduced into 

 Nebraska City, and have multiplied to a considerable extent, but the number of species of 

 insects that they feed on, as has been anticipated, has been found to be small. This of couise 

 could have been endured if they were not so hostile to other birds, native to the soil, that do 

 much better." 



1878. Ballou, W. H. The English Sparrow [Passer domesticus] in Illinois. <[ The 

 Country, i. Jan. 12, 1878, p. 149. 



1878. Bajllou, W. H. English Sparrows [Passer domesticus]. <[ The Chicago Times, 

 Sept. 8, 1878. Eeprinted, Mexico {N. Y.) Independent. 

 Highly unfavorable to the Sparrows, which are denounced in unmeasured terms. 



1878. "Bird." The "English Sparrow" [Passer domesticus] Question. <^Massa- 

 chusetts Ploughman, Aug. 3, 1878. 



Chiefly historical, with reference to legislative action in the case. "In March, 1877, an 

 order was introduced in the Massachusetts Senate, by Senator Gregory, concerning the Eng- 

 lish sparrows, and this order was referred to the Committee on AgTiculture. The sparrow 

 was, and is, protected under our laws. The idea of this order was to have this protection 

 removed because of the character and habits of the sparrow." On a hearing, the evidence 

 proved to be "almost entirely against the sparrow." A clear statement of the many counts 

 against the birds follows : "The evidence was conclusive that, outside of cities and towns, 

 in aU countries where they exist, they are an imdoubted niiisance to agriculturists. In Cuba, 

 where they were in 1862 or 18G3, and had become very numerous, they do immense damage, and 

 are called 'Destroyers.' The biU seems however to have failed, from the opposition of Eep- 

 resentatives from large towns and cities, ' who thought the trees would suffer without the 

 sparrows.' " 



1878. Boner, J. H. Sparrows [Passer domesticus] in the Snow. By John Heniy 

 Boner, [n. d., n. p. Washington, D. C. Darby & Duvall. 1878.] Sq. 18mo. 

 PX3. 12, with eng. title and 4 othea* cuts. 

 Poem. 



