Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
Contributed by Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley.
| www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Transcription
Summary of English Sparrow
Campaign on Campus in April 1914.
Worthen shot 26 hrs. (2 hrs each morning
for 13 days) and brought in 112
Eng. Sparrows, of which 63 were adult
males, 45 adult ff, and 4 full-grown young.
Worthen is paid 35c per hour; therefore killing
of this number cost $9.10 plus cost of ammunition.
Worthen with his helper (at 30c per hour) worked
26 hrs., and tore down 187 nests, which
held 56 young and 41 eggs, costing
$15.10.
The entire April campaign cost $24.25
the funds being supplied by
Mr. Martens.
It appears, therefore, by far
the cheaper method to shoot,
just before the breeding season.