I AM delighted to know that you have shot that black aud 

 golden winged woodpecker after which I have been searcli- 

 ing so long. He has escaped me for about forty-eight years, but 

 I am glad to get him noAV. I also do want that female pied duck. 

 We do not possess either sex in tlie Smithsonian and want it very 

 much. And please let me have that queer Labrador Duck with 

 tlie bill that doesn't belong to it. We Avill immortalize Milltown. 

 — Frof. Spencer F. Baird, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution^ 

 Washington^ D. C, in Letter to George A. Boairlman, June 22, 1871. 



Would it be possible to send the nest in a box so packed that 

 it would be fit to paint from on arrival? I would employ Wolf to 

 make a handsome painting of it with old and young birds, and 

 you should have the first copy struck oft', colored by Wolf himself. 

 Please do help me in tliis and I will do all I can to immortalize 

 you as the first who has enabled us to give full particulars of the 

 breeding of this bird. — Henry E. Dresser, London, Eng., author of 

 History of the Birds of Europe, in Letter to George A. Boardman, 

 May 27, 1872. 



