1907
April 12
(No 2)
as many at her house. They are very pugnacious
driving off th English Sparrows and then fighting each
other. One Song Sparrow dropped dead from a
syringa bush and another is dying. I cannot
tell the cause as there is plenty of food."
  It is evident from the testimony just cited that
the late extraordinary abundance of birds belonging to the
Sparrow family has not been merely local during the
past week but, on the contrary, has been probably
very general over New England. It will be noticed,
however, that Song sparrows and Tree Sparrows, which
were not numerous at Concord, are among the species 
which Mr. Hardy found in the greatest abundance at
Brewer and that he saw only a few Fox Sparrows
there whereas they were found abundantly by Miss
Blatchford at Leicester and by me at Concord, on
the same date when Mr. Hardy's observations were
made.