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This makes 3 specimens procured this spring. This is walking into 

 them pretty extensively. I have no doubt they breed here as the 

 organs of some which I shot were strongly developed. 



Last Saturday I shot a very curious Humming Bird down the 

 creek. It is very large 3%- 4% 2 , i%. Female, Bill, feet & every 

 thing much larger than a Male Bird sent me the same day by Prof. 

 Allen. The throat instead of being white as all the descriptions 

 say, is a pale Buff, and the back has more gold mixed with the green 

 than the male. 



Grandmother left this morning for Philadelphia with Mrs. 

 McClure & Mrs. Roberts. Aunt Julia went down in the train to 

 Harrisburg to bring up Mrs. Storm Espy & Margaret, and to meet 

 her Mother & Eliza who leave Philadelphia to day for Carlisle. 

 Dont forget to send the Intelligencer although grandmother is gone. 

 Write soon, 



Yours affec. 



SPENCER F. BAIRD. 



P. S. If you ever come across a number of "the Dutch in 

 America" published in Washington, I wish you would send it on. 



From Spencer F. Baird to William M. Baird. 



CARLISLE, June 22 1843. 

 DEAR WILL, 



I received your package containing the descriptions & letter 

 this morning. I wrote to Cassin a week ago but have not had an 

 answer yet. I asked him when the next Bulletin would be published. 

 I think I will not send the paper to him until I receive an answer 

 from him, as he may have had a relapse and be too ill to attend to 

 the matter. 



John Leconte 2g came up from Philadelphia last Tuesday he 

 brought the things he spoke of. ... A fine White Ibis white 



29 John Lawrence Le Conte, born in New York May 13, 1825; 

 married Helen S. Grier in 1861; died at Philadelphia, Nov. 15, 1883. 

 One of the most distinguished American entomologists, especially 

 interested in Coleoptera. He was a relative of the Bairds, and of 

 the brothers John and Joseph Le Conte. 



