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In 1847 the poet Epes Sargent became editor of the paper. Many literary and poetic works debuted in the Transcript's pages. An early version of "America the Beautiful" by Katharine Lee Bates first appeared in The Boston Evening Transcript on November 19, 1904. Hazel Hall's first published poem "To an English Sparrow", first appeared in The Transcript in 1916.
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Parasitic wasps are known to eat the larvae. Two red-eyed vireo were witnessed bashing the larvae against a twig up to eighteen times, and then consuming them with multiple swallows without any noise. Other birds observed consuming the larvae in the study were a rose-breasted grosbeak, an English sparrow, and two catbirds. A hose or soapy water can be used to loosen the larvae from a tree.
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In 1958, he joined the Zoology Department at the University of Kansas, Lawrence and became curator of its Natural History Museum. His research interests included the house sparrow (English sparrow) P. domesticus and the feral pigeon C. livia. He was awarded the title of professor emeritus in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. His outside interests included searching for mushrooms, tending to his small vineyard, and making wine.
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The Latin word passer, like the English word "sparrow", is a term for small active birds, coming from a root word referring to speed. The Latin word domesticus means "belonging to the house", like the common name a reference to its association with humans. The house sparrow is also called by a number of alternative English names, including English sparrow, chiefly in North America; and Indian sparrow or Indian house sparrow, for the birds of the Indian subcontinent and Central Asia. Dialectal names include sparr, sparrer, spadger, spadgick, and philip, mainly in southern England; spug and spuggy, mainly in northern England; spur and sprig, mainly in Scotland; and spatzie or spotsie, from the German Spatz, in North America.
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