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Had enseal-. Weldou F.Fosdick : Like the robin, it enjoys our cherries and straw- 

 berries, but does not cause us any loss, as we can not get at the small limbs which 

 they reach. (August 26, 1836. Present about fifteen years.) 



Hackensack. Henry Stewart: It eats strawberries, raspberries, currants, blackber- 

 ries, and grapes. (February 5, 1884. Present about fourteen years. ) 



Ridgeicood (country). Henry Hales : It destroys grapes with me to a great extent; 

 it pecks holes in them and leaves them spoiled. (January 18, 1887. Present about 

 fifteen years.) 



New York. — Binghamlon (suburbs). H. J. Gaylord: He will pick every pea from 

 the pod if he once gets a taste of them. He destroys grapes when they get sweet and 

 ripe, gashing but never eating them. He takes them all unless you fight him. (Sep- 

 tember 26, 1885, Present about fourteen years.) 



Geneva (country). C. S. Plumb : It eats nearly all garden seeds, and is especially de- 

 structive to lettuce, cabbage, and salsify. (August 2s, 1886.) 



Highland Falls. Dr. Edgar A. Mearus : It destroys peas and other tender vegetables 

 as soon as they appear above the ground, thu3 doing great damage. It destroys 

 grapes in large quantities. (February 27, 1884. Present about thirteen years.) 



Fori 'Washington (country). Henry M. Burtis : It injures grapes and pears. (Octo- 

 ber 1, 1886. 



Rochester. H. Roy Gilbert : It attacks garden fruits, and I have known it to de- 

 stroy beds of tulips and other flowers. (August 20, 1834. Present about fifteen years.) 



Rochester. Henry Harrison : It picks the small grapes as soon as the blossom falls, 

 and picks holes in grapes when ripe, as well as in apples and pears. (August 23, 1886. 

 Present about fourteen years.) 



Schuyler's Lake (country). La Grande Southworth : It injures peas and corn, and I 

 have seen it eating the fruit of the black cherry and choke cherry, but have never 

 known it to injure any other fruit except the strawberry. (December 2, 1886. Present 

 about six years.) 



Sing Sing. Dr. A. K. Fisher : Young cabbage and cauliflower plants are attacked 

 just after they are transplanted. 



Syracuse (city and country). Edwin M. Hasbrouck : We have had our grape-vines 

 almost cleaned, the Sparrow pecking the grapes for the seed until scarcely a bunch 

 remained that was not ruined. It also eats cherries. (August 20, 1886. Present 

 twenty-two or twenty-three years.) 



Watcrtoxvn. Herbert M. Hill : It injures grapes, berries, apples, and plums. (Janu- 

 ary 29, 1887.) 



West Farms, New York. Jnmes Angus: It does some injury to garden fruits and 

 vegetables, but not a tithe of that done by insects. (February 11, 1884. Present fif- 

 teen or twenty years.) 



Westport. George C. Osborne: It eats all kinds of berries and pecks green corn. 

 (November 5, 1886. Present about ten years.) 



North Carolina. —FayettevWc (suburbs). G. W. Lawrence: It pecks young peas 

 and other early plants just after they come out of the ground. (September 4, 1886. 

 Present three or four years.) 



Morganton. George H. Moran: It is very fond of strawberries. (May 18, 1887.). 



Xew Market (country). H. A. Beesou : It is abundant within ten miles, and pecks 

 grapes, strawberries, tomatoes, plums, apples, peaches, and pears, causing fhem to 

 decay. It also eats mustard, etc. (November 30, 1886. Present four years.) 



Ohio. — Bellaire. W. K. Morrison : When the common gooseberry is only a few 

 days old the Sparrow attacks it and cuts it in two, eating the front and leaving the 

 other part on the bush. (October 28, 1886.) 



Cincinnati (suburbs). Adolph Leue : I have seen it pick at ripe tomatoes. A few 

 years ago 1 had two cherry trees laden with fruit all taken by this robber. In 1885 

 it was especially numerous in this locality, and completely devoured the ears of a 

 whole patch of sugar-corn containing two square rods. (October 12, 1886. Present 

 more than twelve years.) 



