English sparrow records, v4414
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Question: Why do not the Finches supplant the Eng. Sp. to a certain extent at least, they out number them and occupy the same niche, i.e.: house tops & telegraph wires. Perhaps they are not quite as songsters. Census Eng. Sp. 22 Others 113 - March 23 - Hunted on campus (1 1/4 hrs. between 6 & 8 A.M.) Birds very wild. Only succeeded in wounding 1 ?. Census Eng. Sp. 14 Others 57 - March 24 - Hunted on campus 1 3/4 hrs. (between 6 and 8 A.M. Believing that the only real resident birds on the campus are those whose range lies in section bounded by North & South Walls, Botany Bldg., Bacon Hall and the Philosophy Bldg. All others, seem irregularly or other parts of the