Passer domesticus. English Sparrow. — W. P. Coues 1 reports 
that this species “made its first appearance in Cape Breton coin- 
cidently with the completion of the Cape Breton Railroad, during 
the month of November last [1889]”. I found it abundant at 
towns along the railroad, as at Hawkesburg, St. Peters, and Sydney. 
It was also abundant at Baddeck, Englishtown, and at Sandy 
MacDonald’s at the mouth of French River. Fortunately it did 
not seem to have extended north of that point, and may Smoky 
long block its way ! 
There were eighteen species recorded by Dwight, Bolles or Allen 
which I did not see, namely: C languid clangula americana, Harelda 
hy emails, Oidemia deglandi (the entire absence of Scoters ^along 
1 Auk, Vol. VII, 1890, p. 212. 
the coast even during the latter part of my visit in September 
seemed to me strange), IRallus virginianus, Philohela minor, 
Coccyzus sp. ?, Picoides arcticus, Sphyrapicus varius, Antrostomus 
vociferus, Trochilus colubris, Empidonax minimus, Pocecetes gram- 
ineus, Melospiza georgiana, Zamelodia ludoviciana, DemLroica 
castanea, Seiurus noveboracensis, Wilsonia pusilla, Flylocichla 
guttata pallasii. 

Passer domesticus. English Sparrow. — Very common at 
Haileybury. 
200. Passer domesticus. House Sparrow.— The “Avian Rat,” 
of Tegetmeier, was introduced about 1870, it increases and decreases 
according to the severity of the winter, but on the whole is still on the 
increase. 
