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Esquimaux Curlew, Young Ibis, Ivory Heron, Eider Duck, & Two 

 species of Tern, Three species of Gulls, one Jager, Two species of 

 Guillemots, Red throated Diver, Red Necked Grebe, and the Little 

 Grebe, Podiceps minutus of Nuttall. Also, Peregrine Falcon, Rough 

 legged Buzzard, Prairie Warbler, Lapland Longspur, Snow Bunting, 

 Blue Jay, Flycatcher, Mango Humming Bird, Pine Grosbeak, Com- 

 mon Cross Bill, Lesser Redpoll, Canada Grouse, and some more I 

 do not know. Besides this I am going to get a number more. Some 

 of these I obtained from a Young man Named Brashear, of Brooklyn 

 who has a good many water birds. Some I got from Mr. Giraud 

 who has, as I told you before, the best collection of American Birds 

 I ever saw. But the most I procured from a young man named Peale, 

 son of Peale's Museum in New York. I am to send him when I go 

 home great numbers of Unios, snail shells, and fossils which can be 

 very easily done. Giraud, and Brashear have promised to get me as 

 full a collection of shore birds as they can in the spring. This they 

 can and will do as they are rich and do nothing but shoot. Brashear 

 kills more ducks and shore birds than any young man about here. 



I showed Mr. Audubon the birds I brought with me and the 

 Result is as follows: The big woodpecker is Picus Auduboni. The 

 little one is probably new, The thrush is Young Turdus Wilsonii? 

 The former Muscicapa Leibi is the true Muscicapa Pusilla, while 

 the former Muscicapa Pusilla is beyond all doubt NEW. The old 

 man still continues to be as clever as ever; he even offered the other 

 day to teach me to paint & draw after his own peculiar manner, on 

 condition of telling no one, and I have already commenced with 

 him. I have drawn (from his originals) Fox Colored Sparrow, Cedar 

 Bird, and am now at the feet of Harris' Buzzard. He is now drawing 

 Fespertilio Noctivagans, and just finished a rabbit; they are the 

 most exquisite things in the world, I only wish you were here to see 

 them. He gave me to-day a copy of his letter press 5 vols. a pretty 

 clever present, and is going to give me some rare bird skins. 



I have just finished the other day looking over Major Leconte's 

 Entomological drawings, of which he has about 9000 sheets, a species 

 to each sheet; they are most beautifully executed. The Major is 

 a first Cousin of Grandmother's. 



They have some very good books here. The second vol. of 

 Swainson's Fishes, Amphibians and Reptiles, which you know con- 



