. The oist . g on the mellow soilamong some little bushes and couldnot content myself with the feelingsthat he was a bachelor. In exploringevery little dumb of grass and pileof brush I finally noticed two freshlylaid eggs slightly buried among thefallen leaves after the manner of awild duck, who eovers her eggs untilshe is ready to sit. With some dif-ficulty this copse was marked and up-on making a second trip a few dayslater, I found the parent at nest was situated in an idealspot and the eggs were more beautifulthan any I had previously found dur-ing the season. The back ground isa
. The oist . g on the mellow soilamong some little bushes and couldnot content myself with the feelingsthat he was a bachelor. In exploringevery little dumb of grass and pileof brush I finally noticed two freshlylaid eggs slightly buried among thefallen leaves after the manner of awild duck, who eovers her eggs untilshe is ready to sit. With some dif-ficulty this copse was marked and up-on making a second trip a few dayslater, I found the parent at nest was situated in an idealspot and the eggs were more beautifulthan any I had previously found dur-ing the season. The back ground isa dark rusty brown and the markingsare innumerable spots of deep Alan Abbott,Chicago, Illinois. The author begs leave to announcethat his Catalogue of the Erycinidseof the World, with the synonomybrought down to Oct. 1904, is nowrunning through press and will beready for distribution some time dur-ing May. As the edition will be limited, gentle-men and librarians who are interested 104 THE I- ^6 THE OOLOGIST. 105 are requested to send their intentionsto subscribe for copies of the Cata-logue, to the $ net. Address all orders, communications,etc., to the author. Levi W. Mengel,Boys High School,Reading, Pa. THE ENGLISH SPARROW. From Prof. Estabrook of ClarkUniv. we have received a reprint fromthe Auk, Vol. XXIV, No. 2.; that isof sufficient interest to warrent usingit in full as below. It is self-explana-tory. Editorially we would endorse, as wepractice, the most drastic measures. The Present Status of the English Sparrow Problem in America. By A. H. Estabrook. The Englsh Sparrow (Passer domes-ticus,) was introduced into the Unit-ed States in the fall of ISoO. The firstfew pairs were liberated at Brooklyn,X. Y. In the few years then following,many others were liberated at differ-ent cities in the United States, so thatby 187o, they had spread over prac-tically the whole area east of From the time of its in-trcduction, there w
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