30 THE ENGLISH SPARROW IN AMERICA. 



From William F. Lamb, of Holyoke, Mass.: 



A pair which have bred in a box near my window for seven successive years, have 

 reared three broods each year, averaging live young to a brood. (February 29, 1884. ) 



From Clarence L. Gate, of Spencer, Mass.: 



I know of one pair that raised six broods in 1884, and I believe that four or five is 

 the number of broods regularly raised by a pair. (October, 1886.) 



From Elisba Slade, of Somerset, Mass.: 



Five broods are usually reared in a season, and the number of young in a brood 

 varies from five to eight ; the average is six or more. A single pair become the par- 

 ents of thirty or more young in one season. They often have their first brood late 

 in March or early in April, and nestlings arc common in September and October, and 

 in every intervening month. Young birds hatched in April frequently pair and rear 

 a brood in early autumn. (August 20, 1886.) 



From John F. T. Edwards, of Iron ton, Mo. : 



The three or four birds which were here about two years ago have multiplied into 

 one or two hundred. (November 15, 1886.) 



From J. M. Fowlkes, of Memphis, Tenn. : 



In the fall of 1871 three pairs of Sparrows were introduced here by Col. C. J. Sid- 

 den, and judging from the present crop they have thriven well. No other importation 

 of these birds has been made, but the progeny of this stock now infest the city and 

 the suburbs for several miles. (November 13, 1886.) 



From W. T. Sledge, of Lawrenceville, Ya. : 



Seven were first seen here (in 1876), but since that time they have miraculously in- 

 creased. Two Sparrows have been known to hatch twenty-four young in one nest 

 during the summer. (November 12, 1886.) 



From Walter B. Hull, of Milwaukee, Wis.: 



I have killed nearly five hundred, old and young, since January. I killed ten 

 broods the first sitting, and more than twenty the second, but even now they are 

 hatching. The 21st of this month I killed four broods aggregating fourteen young. 

 (August 23, 1886.) 



The following account of the introduction, increase, and spread of 

 the English Sparrow in the neighborhood of Strathroy, Ontario, Can- 

 ada, is furnished us by Mr. L. H. Smith, of that place. He writes : 



In March, 1874, I sent to a New York bird dealer, and he forwarded mc jser ex- 

 press, twelve birds, six males and six females, at a cost to me of $1 each. If all tho 

 Sparrows in our town are mine, and my neighbors all say they are, then I have at 

 least plenty for my money. The six pairs of Sparrows I turned out in some farm 

 buildings near town, where they stayed for a week or two. By and by, by ones and 

 twos, they moved to town, and, singular to say, one pair built a nest in the cornice 

 of the house of the man who wrote me in England, in 1873, to bring some out, and 

 another pair built in the next house to my own. They are now in thousands in our 

 town, and are plentiful in every town, city, and village in this part of Ontario. I 

 do not think they all came from the six pairs of birds which I brought here in March, 

 1874, because I remember in the summer of 1873 seeing them as far west as Syracuse, 

 and they might have been farther this way. 



Strathroy is 20 miles west of London, and 40 miles east of Port Huron, Mich. 



It was only a few years after 1874 I noticed them at Toronto and London and other 

 places east of this. It is perhaps eight years since they sjn'ead west of this. I have 

 no proof that all did not come from my six pairs. For several years they increased 



