WALTER B. BARROWS, 
MICHICAN AGRICULTURAL COLLECE. 
JESSE J. MYERS, 
J. R. KELTON, 
DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY AND GEOLOGY. 
ZOOLOGY, 
PHYSIOLOGY, 
GEOLOGY. 
ORNITHOLOGY, 
(ECOLOGY, 
PHYSIOGRAPHY. 
AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE, INGHAM CO., MICH. 
FREIGHT AND EXPRE88 OFFICE, LANSING; P. 0. AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. 
April 18, 1907. 
Mr. Walter Deane, 
145 Brattle St., 
0ambridge, Mass 
Dear Mr. Deane: 
Many thanks for your note of the 16th. I 
shall be glad to hear from Mr. Brewster on his return. 
I an very glad to hear of the large numbers 
of fox sparrows. During the thirteen years which I 
have lived here I have not seen altogether one hundred 
fox sparrows. Sometimes an entire spring or fall goes 
by without seeing a single one, and I have never seen 
more than three or four at a time. When i lived at 
Reading, Hass.,from about 1868 to 1876 the fox sparrows 
fairly swarmed both spring and fall, and as i remember 
it (I have not my notes at hand) they were equally 
abundant every year. I know we trapped scores of juncos 
and some song sparrows, but were never able to get a 
fox sparrow into the trap cage, although scores of them 
would come and get the seed scattered about it. 
Yours very truly, 
Dictated. 
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