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Carpodacus purpureus (517). Purple Finch. 
Common .in flocks during winter, they were exceedingly 
numerous round Baltimore during the severe season of ’92-3. 
Extreme dates are October 1 (’90, Resler) and May 31 (’93, 
Fisher). At Washington it is given as “common in migra- 
tions, less so in mid-winter. One was shot September 17 (’87), 
by H. W. Henshaw. I saw a flock at Great Falls, Md., on 
September 24-5 (’89), and one was shot on May 13 (’85), by 
Dr. H. M. Smith” (Richmond). 
“Not known at Hagerstown until May 3, ’83, when they 
swarmed in the town” (Small). 
Passer domesticus. English Sparrow. 
The first English Sparrows brought to this country were 8 pairs, 
liberated in Brooklyn in the spring of ’51, but nothing is known of 
what became of them. Two years later, 100 were liberated there and 
the importation was kept up for 30 years, the birds being liberated 
at widely different points of the country, 2500 or more birds being 
introduced. 
“In June, ’74, a few birds were brought to Baltimore by an Eng- 
lish Captain and liberated in Franklin Square. These are the first 
birds we have any knowledge of that came to Baltimore direct” 
(Baltimore American, August 31, ’93). At the following points in 
Maryland they introduced themselves,’ and were noted in the fol- 
lowing order : 
65 Hancock. °77* Mechanicstown. 
768 Cumberland. *77* Union Bridge. 
"70 Williamsport. °78* Frostburg. 
°72* Manchester. °78* Lonaconing. 
’75* Boonsboro. "78 Middletown. 
°75* Oakland. ' °78* Sharpsburg, 
°76* Clearspring. °79* Burkettsville. 
76* Hagerstown. °79* Emmettsburg. 
°76* New Windsor. °79* Sandy Springs. 
°76* Smithsburg. 80 Grantsville. 
°76* Taneytown. 80 Salisbury. 
°76* Westminster, : * About. 
1¥or a full account of the introduction, etc., of the English Sparrow, 
see “The English Sparrow in North America,” by W. B. Barrows, United 
States Department of Agriculture, Division of Economic Ornithology 
and Mammalogy, Bulletin No. 1, 1889. 
