io8 SPENCER FULLERTON BAIRD 



Red teal, Pigeon hawk, Long eared owl, 2 coots, green leg Galinule; 

 Blue wing teal: Hudsonian Godwit, Hudsonian Curlew, Winter 

 plumage of Black-head Gull: Havell's tern: Adult Pine Grosbeak, 

 & White winged Crossbill, Hyperborean Phalarope, Carolina Parrot, 

 Lark Bunting, Coerulean Warbler, and a variety of others, the names 

 of which I will send for the labels when I get home. 



From Sam Ashmead I got a fall mourning Warbler, and I think a 

 Wilson's Phalarope in winter plumage. I am going to get a number 

 of others from Sam Ashmead, John Krider, & Cassin. I have also 

 got a number of the Californian duplicates from Cassin in the 

 Academy, two species of Centurus & a jay like Steller's; siskin, also 

 a whole lot in spirits. Agelaius tricolor, Western Blue Bird, a Starling 

 with a Yellow throat, A Tyrannus like the F. Verticalis, Bullock's? 

 oriole, two species of Phalarope, and several others. These can not 

 be identified all of them, until they are stuffed, as the rum in which 

 they are blends all colors into one. 



I have been much interested looking at some Anatidae of Cassins. 

 The obscure species I was telling you of may I think be referred to 

 the King & Eider ducks, but he has an exceedingly curious goose. 

 It is rather larger than a Brant, with its general appearance, except 

 in being shining & entirely black beneath! ! ! What do you think 



of it. I have no doubt of its being a new species . I forgot to 



say that Cassin gave me the skin of a snow goose, in bad order, it 

 is true, but I can improve it greatly by stuffing it over. 



I think you will be glad to learn that the plates of the two last 

 volumes of Holbrook's Herpetology are all printed with the letter 

 press & will be published shortly. I am going tomorrow to see them 

 at Richards, the printers, & I will tell you about them. 



I wish you could feel rich enough to buy a Camera Lucida. I 

 am full of the idea of making drawings of the Bills, feet, wings & 

 tails of all our birds & it cannot be done accurately without a camera. 

 M'Allister has an excellent one second hand which he offers for 7 

 dollars. It is the most complete one I ever saw, being fixed for magni- 

 fied drawing. If you will buy it, I will pay you as I get the money, 

 which I think will not be a great while as I can sell a set of the Farmer's 

 Encyclopedia I have at home, for 4 dollars, which will approximate 

 to this sum. They (the cameras) can be sold again readily second 

 or third hand at a small reduction of price. Do try and afford it 



