EARLY COLONIES IN AMERICA. 



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Table II. 



■Places, not included in Table I, where English Sparrows have been intro- 

 duced — Continued. 



Place. 



Date. 



Numbc r. 



"Wliere obtained. 



Virginia: 



1870 or 1871 





Richmond, Va (?) 



Suffolk 



1874 







Between 1870 and 1878 

 1875 or 1870 







Wytheville 







Wisconsin : 



Fox Lake 



1881 or 1882 



]87G 



5 or 6 birds 



Milwaukee, Wis. 

 Do. 





1873 



About 20 pairs 



New York City. 





About 1871 





Between 1870 and 1878 

 1874 









birds 



Delroifc, Mick 





1880 



Milwaukee, Wis. 



Canada: 



Halifax 1ST. S 



1875 or 1876 







About 1872 









Abont 1876 







Ottawa Ont 



About 1870 



10 pairs 







1874 



New York City. 





About 1875 





Montreal, Q 



1870 







1801 















Table III. — Places where English Sparrows are said to have appeared as early as 1870, 

 and wncre iheu may have been introduced, although not so reported. 



Place. 



Date. 



Tlace. 



Date . 



Connecticut : 



Manchester 



1869-1872. 



1870. 



1870. 



1807. 

 1865-1870. 



1869-1870. 

 About 1870. 



1870 or before. 

 1870. 

 186:3. [?] 

 1865-1870. 



1869-1870. 



1808-1809. 

 1808-1871. 



1868. 



About 1805. 

 1870. 



1870 or earlier. 



1809-1872. 



1866. 



1808. • 



New Jersey— Continued. 

 Caldwell .. 



1870 







About 1868. 

 About 1870. 





Hackonsack 



Georgia: 



Albany 





1870. 





New York : 



Illinois : 



1860 



O'Fallcn Depot 





About 1870. 



1870-1872. 



1866 



Pekin 





Indiana : 



Sing Sino-... 



Burlington 





1863-1864. 

 1861, 



Irviugton 



Utica ... 





Ohio: 



New Albany 



1867. 

 About 1868. 



Iowa: 



Hamilton 





Pennsylvania: 



Lancaster 



Middleburgh 





Kentucky: 



1870oreailier. 

 1868 or 1809. 

 About 1870. 

 1867 or 1868 



Lexingtou 



Maryland : 



AVriglitsville 





Virginia : 





Hancock 



1870 or 1871. 

 1870 or 1871. 



I860. 





Watenbrd 



Wesr Virginia : 



_ Shepbcrilstown 



Wisconsin : 



Berlin 



Massachusetts : 



Holyoko ; 



Springfield 



About 1870. 

 Do 



New Jersey : 



De Pere 













A study of these tables shows that even before 1875 there were many 

 large Sparrow colonies throughout the United States, east of the Mis- 

 sissippi, as well as several in Canada, one or more in Utah, one at Gal- 

 veston, Tex., and probably another in San Francisco, Cal. There were 

 small colonies also in eastern Iowa and in Missouri, Kansas, and Ne- 

 braska. 



From this time to the present, the marvelous rapidity of the Sparrow's 

 multiplication, the surpassing swiftness of its extension, and the pro- 



