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never seen it molest either fruits or vegetables. (October 6, 1886. Present about 

 seven years.) 



Louisville. Conrad E. Kaekler : It injures the cherry crop badly. It also scratches 

 up garden seeds. (September 27, 1886. Present about six years.) 



Monmouth. Dr. S. M. Hamilton: I have never seen the least bit of injury done to 

 fruits or vegetables by the Sparrow. (September 24, 1886. Preseut twelve or four- 

 teen years.) 



Mount Vernon. John S. Bogan : I have two gardens, and I never noticed the 

 Sparrow interfering with anything but cherries. (September 2, 1886. Present seven 

 or eight years.) 



Shawneetown. George Rearden : It does not eat the vegetables themselves, but de- 

 stroys nearly all kinds of small seed, such as turnip, radish, lettuce, etc., and scratches 

 up larger seeds. It also injures cherries. (October 2, 1886. Present about five years.) 



Indiana. — Albion. Charles M. Clapp : I know of numbers of cases where they have 

 destroyed peas and many other vegetables. (October 14, 1886. Present five or six 

 years. ) 



Cliarlesiown. Dennis F. Willey : It injures peas and grapes, and any seeds that 

 chickens would eat. (September 28, 1886. Present about four years. ) 



Dupont (country). T.S.Williams: They eat anything in the garden that is left 

 to mature for seed. They eat or bite and break the skin on grapes, especially the 

 sweet grapes, causing the bees to swarm after them. (October 6, lb 86. Present about 

 six years.) 



Farmland (country). N. W. Wright: It eats garden seeds, and a flock of one hun- 

 dred or more worked on a patch of sweet corn last fall and damaged the ears cousid- 

 erably. (March 7, 1887. Present two or three years.) 



HooTcer (country). Mary Benson : It injures cherries, but does no damage to vege- 

 tables. (October 11, 1886.) 



Maryland. Julia B. Brown. They work on currants, strawberries, and grapes to 

 some extent. (October 11, 1886. Present about eight years. ) 



Newbern. U. F. Glick : It does not injure grapes or other fruit to any great extent 

 here. (October 12, 1885. Present about two years. ) 



Vevay. William R. Stratford : It is fond of cherries and grapes, and will eat the 

 fruit of nearly all our ornamental vines or shrubs. (October 7, 1836. Present about 

 eleven years. ) 



Iowa. — Burlington. Howard Kingsbury: It is not nearly as injurious to fruits and 

 vegetables as some of the migratory species, such as blackbirds, cow-birds, etc. (De- 

 cember 28, 1886. Present sixteen or seventeen years.) 



Davenport. Davenport Academy of Natural Sciences, per W. H. Pratt, curator : 

 It does not appear to do much injury here to fruits or vegetables. Some gardeners in 

 the city report it as an expert at shelling peas, and it pecks at some small fruits a 

 little. (April 20, 1887. Present about seventeen years.) 



Dubuque. Edward T. Keim. Some damage to lettuce has been reported in wet sea- 

 sons. (August 19, 1886. Present about ten years.) 



Fairfield. Thos. C. Ross: This year, for the first time, it was seen five miles out in 

 the country, on corn, in August. (November, 1887.) 



Lost Nation. F. M. Frazier: It injured my grape crop this year, and it injures 

 young plants, such as cabbage, in the spring. (October 16, 1886. Present five or six 

 years.) 



Sidney. G. V. Swearingen: They are destructive to grapes, raspberries, and other 

 small fruits, and peck nearly everything that is grown in the garden. (October 8, 

 1886. Present four or five years.) 



Kansas. — Blaine. Postmaster: It picks young grapes and currants. (October 6,1886. 

 Present seven or eight years.) 



Doniphan. Postmaster : It injures grapes very badly, also cherries and small fruits, 

 such as raspberries, blackberries, etc. (October 12, 1836. Present five or six years.) 



