244 THE ENGLISH SPARROW IN AMERICA. 



The remaining four hundred aud forty-five reports, containing the 

 most valuable information on this subject, can not be satisfactorily sum. 

 maiized, but they may be classified as follows : 



Reports. 



Wholly favorable to the Sparrow 24 



Wholly unfavorable to the Sparrow 384 



Partly favorable and partly unfavorable 37 



A few examples of this evidence have been inserted already in con- 

 nection with the summary in Part I of this Bulletin, where the various 

 injuries to fruits, vegetables, and seeds have been tabulated ; and these, 

 in connection with the following reports, will give a fair idea of the 

 whole. 



Alabama.— Eufau la. E. L. Brown: It eats vegetable seeds before they fully ma- 

 ture. It is impossible to save such seed. (September 17, 1886. Present about four 

 years.) 



Notasulga. Sam Duke : They fly down on the vines and eat the grapes ; they also 

 scratch up garden seed. (November 2, 1886. Present about three years.) 



Arkansas. — Clarendon. Horace Ward : It injures grapes and strawberries. (Sep- 

 tember 20, 1886. Present "since June.") 



Little Rock. Carl von Jagerstield : It injures fruits and vegetables to a considera- 

 ble extent. (Washington, Ark., September 23, 1886.) 



Lufra. W. P. Hale : My little vineyard came into bearing in 1836, and was very 

 well fruited. It was afflicted with rot to some extent, but its worst enemy is the 

 English Sparrow, which eats the grapes about as fast as they ripen. (Autumn, 1887.) 



California. — Berkeley (suburb). Dr. M. C. O'Toole : It eats every kind of fruit, aud 

 in great quantities considering the size of the bird. (February 17, 1887. Present 

 about three years.) 



Napa City. Postmaster : It is apt to eat buds and leaves on young and tender gar- 

 den plants. (January 11, 1837. Present two or three years.) 



Stockton. Postmaster: It injures peas, apples, cherries, peaches, apricots, plums, 

 prunes, grapes, etc. (November, 1886. Present three years or more.) 



Connecticut.— Ellington. S. T. Kimball : It will eat the seeds of turnip, beet, and 

 cabbage, if they are not well protected. Once in a while it has made a raid on our 

 peas. (August 20, 1886. Present five or six years.) 



Meriden. H. C. Hull : It injures grapes and devours berries. (August 31, 1886. 

 Present sixteen years.) 



New Haven. Frank S. Piatt : I have twenty varieties of choice grapes which they 

 peck and ruin. (September 9, 1886.) 



New Raven. Dr. Fred. Sumner Smith : In New Haven the Sparrows used to spoil 

 our grapes by the bushel, picking the ripest ones and sucking the juice. (West Hart- 

 ford, Conn., November, 1885.) 



Plantsville. E. R. Newell : It has been observed to feed on grapes and other fruits, 

 but in this section not to any great extent. * * * Since writing the above I have 

 seen a row of choice grapes of various kinds entirely ruined by the Sparrow, and find 

 that they are committing depredations on all the vines iu this neighborhood. (Sep- 

 tember 4, 1885.) 



South Woodstock (country). Mrs. G. S. F. Stoddard: I have not observed it to feed 

 upon grapes or other fruit. (January, 1886.) 



Stratford. Robt. W. Curtiss: I have seen it eat sweet corn when in the milk. It 

 tears open the husk when in that condition, and, besides what it eats, it lets the 

 weather and dampness in upon the ear, which is apt to mold, though to no very great 

 extent. (February 6 and October 11, 1886). 



