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Caldwell. Marcus S. Crane: My friend, Mr. William Davenport, tells me ke lias 

 seen it picking to pieces pear and peach blossoms. (February 19, 1884.) 



Freehold. D. D. Denise : It picks the blossoms from fruit trees. (September 2, 

 1886.) 



Haddonfield. Samuel N. Rhodes: It injures fruit buds; but on my farm and in 

 small villages the destruction is sligbt. (September 9, 1886.) 



Merchantville. Edward Burrough: It injures fruit buds. I have detected it this 

 spring eating the buds ou a Bartlett pear tree, and also on the white elm. I have 

 frequently heard them charged with this habit, but never caught them at it before. 

 (May 16, 1887.) 



Passaic Bridge. F. M.' Carry 1: I have seen it take buds of the plum, apple, and 

 quince trees, and have found them in the stomachs of birds shot. (August 26, 1886.) 



New York.— Binghamton. H. J. Gaylord: It destroys everything it comes in contact 

 with. It is very destructive in the fruit orchards in the early spring, eating fruit buds 

 from the plum and cherry trees. (September 26, 1885.) 



Clyde. William M. McLachlan : I have observed it destroying the fruit buds of the 

 pear, and I have teen it on my currant bushes. (May 15, 1884.) 



Dobbs Ferry. Dr. C. B. McQuesten : They pick off the budding flowers of the 

 apple and pear trees and the budding leaves of the maples. (October 8, 1886.) 



Geneva. C. S. Plumb : It picks out the buds of plum and pear trees in early spring, 

 before they have started to any extent. (August 28, 1888.) 



Rochester. P. C. Reynolds: It sometimes picks off buds of the pear and cherry be- 

 fore they open in spring. (September 2, 1886.) 



Ohio. — Akron. Prof. E. W. Claypole: I have not observed it to injure trees or viues, 

 but testimony on this point is contradictory. (December 31, 1886.) 



Avon dale. Charles Dury : Four Sparrows examined March 25, 1885, were full of 

 tree buds; these were shot out of a flock in a cherry tree near home. (February 3, 

 1886.) 



Burton. P. W. Parmelee : It injures grape blossoms. (September 1, 1886.) 



Cleveland. L. M. Davies: I have seen it picking buds from an apple tree in our 

 yard in the spring, and am sure it was not u after insects." (November 1, 1886- ) 



Marietta. Dudley S. Nye: Fruit-growers condemn them as injuring fruit buds. 

 (November 25, 1886.) 



Oxford. L. N. Bonham : It eats the first spring buds of fruit trees and viues. (Co- 

 lumbus, Ohio, November 30, 1886.) 



Saint Clairsville. T. W. Emerson : It roosts, and even nests, in climbing vines in 

 such numbers as to make them nuisances instead of ornaments. (March 2, 1887.) 



Pennsylvania. — Berwick. Dr. A. B. McCrea : Before the early vegetables are above 

 ground he will destroy the fruit buds, often doing considerable damage. (September 

 1, 1885.) 



Berwyn. Frank L. Burns : I have seen it pick off buds from the apple trees when 

 other food was scarce. I have also found buds of plants in its stomach in winter. 

 (1885.) 



Chambersburgh. Davison Greenawalt : The English Sparrow is the only bird I ever 

 knew to do any damage to buds or foliage. Peach, pear, and apple trees are the ones 

 most damaged. (February, 1884.) 



Lancaster. Dr. S. S. Rathvon: I have it from an intelligent fruit-grower and 

 nurseryman (Mr. Daniel Smeych) in this city, that they destroy the young leaves and 

 flower buds of fruit trees and grape-vines in early spring. (October 8, 1886.) 



Landis Valley. H. K. Laudis : It has been observed to feed on the buds and foliage 

 of trees. It destroys the blossoms of peach trees. (September 8, 1885.) 



Waynesborough. E. B. Engle : I have seen them pull off the buds of peach, plnm, 

 and cherry trees in winter and early spring. (August 30, 1886.) 



Willow Street. Dr. I. H. Mayer: It attacks and injures the buds of grape-vines 

 and fruit trees, especially the blossom buds. (January 31, 1885.) 



