TABLE OF CONTENTS. 7 



Page. 

 Section Second : Recommendations 150-166 



(A) Recommendations for legislation 150 



1. Suggestions as to the repeal of old laws and the enactment of 



new ones 150 



2. Bounties 153 



(a) Inexpediency of bounties in general 153 



(&) Estimated cost of exterminating the Sparrows in Ohio by 



means of bounties - 154 



(c) Montana's bounty law on Prairie Dogs and Ground Squir- 

 rels 161 



(.d) Michigan's bounty law on English Sparrows. 162 



(B) Recommendations to the people , 164 



1. General suggestions .' 164 



2. Use of fire-arms, traps, and poison 164 



3. Destruction of nests and disturbance at roosting places 165 



4. Sparrow clubs and shooting matches 166 



5. The Sparrow as an article of food 166 



Section Third : Legislation affecting the English Sparpow in the United 



States - 167-173 



Section Fourth: Destruction of the Sparrow by poisons, by Dr. A. K.Fisher. 174-178 



1. The poisons used in experiments, and the formulae for their prep- 



aration 174 



2. Cost of poisoned grain 175 



3. General suggestions 175 



4. Precautions 175 



5. Synopsis of experiments ... 176 



(a) Experiments with strychnine 176 



(&) Experiments with tincture of nux vomica 177 



(c) Experiments with corrosive sublimate 177 



(d) Experiments with white arsenic 177 



(e) Experiments with arseniate of soda 1 77 



(/) Experiments with Fowler's solution 177 



(g) Experiments with London purple 177 



(7i) Experiments with Paris green 173 



Section Fifth : The trapping of Sparrows for sporting purposes, by W. T. 



Hill 178-191 



1. History and details of the business 178 



2. English Sparrow catching. Description of apparatus and methods 



employed. [Illustrated] 183 



Section Sixth : History of the House Sparrow and the European Tree Sparrow 

 (Passei- montanus) at Saint Louis, Mo., by Otto Wid- 

 mann 191-194 



PART II. Evidence. 



Section First : Original testimony in detail (previously unpublished) 197-301 



(A) Distribution by States 199 



(B) Rate of increase ; checks, natural and artificial 232 



(C) Injury to buds and foliage 240 



(D) Inj ury to fruits, garden seeds, and vegetables 243 



(E) Injury to grain crops 252 



(F) Relation to other birds 260 



(G) Relation to insects „ 283 



