Field notes: Eastern United States trip, book 1, v4545
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38 May 4 D.C. given place, where sparrows are already accustomed to congregate, selecting a kind of food which experiment showed was especially liked, could catch "entire flocks" at one time. Part, at least, of the cost of catching sparrows could be defrayed by disposing of them in the markets as "seed birds" or to zoological parks as food for various small carnivora mammals, which are difficult to provide for. Hollister puts number of tanned skins, with coarse pen, in one uniform place. Chas. S. Jenkins, Lansdale, Pa. Map roll in C.H. Merriam's office May 5 Visited Dr. C.H. Merriam's offices