THE ENGLISH SPARROW QUESTION 79 
and has been most successful in annexing and holding 
new territories. Still, if you desire our beautiful and 
musical native birds to live with you, you must keep 
down the sparrows. 
Mr. Frank Bond has furnished me the following list 
of mostly western birds which have been taken in and 
near the city of Cheyenne, Wyoming. None were 
taken more than three miles from the city limits. A 
large number of these birds would be more or less an- 
noyed by the English sparrow, if that pest had not 
almost been exterminated at Cheyenne. The numbers 
refer to the second edition of the Check-List of North 
American Birds published by the American Ornitholo- 
gists’ Union. 
394a. Gardner’s Woodpecker. 488. American Crow. 
404. Williamson’s Sapsucker. 491. Clarke’s Nutcracker. 
406. Red-headed Woodpecker. 492. Pifion Jay. 
408. Lewis’s Woodpecker. 495. Cowbird. 
413. Red-shafted Flicker. 497. Yellow-headed Blackbird. 
418. Poor-will. 498. Bahaman Red-wing. 
420a. Nighthawk. 501d. Western Meadowlark. 
432. Broad-tailed Humming 508. Bullock’s Oriole. 
bird. 510. Brewer’s Blackbird. 
447. Arkansas Kingbird. 511b. Bronzed Grackle. 
448. Cassin’s Kingbird. 514. Evening Grosbeak. 
454. Ash-throated Flycatcher. 519. House Finch. 
457. Say’s Pheebe. 524. Gray-crowned Leucosticte. 
459. Olive-sided Flycatcher. 528. Redpoll. 
462. Western Wood Peewee. 529. Holbéll’s Redpoll. 
474c. Desert Horned Lark. 530. Arkansas Goldfinch. 
475. American Magpie. 533. Pine Siskin. 
478b. Steller’s Jay. 534. Snowflake. 
