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Rh Yet from the occasional statements thus made, and from various reliable published records, we have been able to make a list of more than a hundred places in the United States and Canada to which Sparrows have been taken, either by direct importation from the Old World or by transportation from place to place after their arrival in America. From the casual manner in which these data have been obtained it may be considered certain that they represent but a very small fraction of the number of points at which the Sparrow has been introduced; but the early dates of many of the importations, as well as the great distances separating many of the places, are very significant as affording a partial explanation for the unparalleled rapidity with which this bird has overspread the inhabited part of the continent. The following lists explain themselves :

Table I. — Places where English Sparrows have been introduced directly from Europe.


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Table II.—Places, not included in Table I, where Enijlish Sparrows have l)ecn introduced.