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bird house from St. Stephen to Calais and putting up his 

 collection of birds, eggs and nests in his new museum. 

 He records the number of loads and notes the days 

 spent in " arranging his bird house." His diary for that 

 year records the names of eighty-four persons with whom 

 he had been in correspondence during the year, many of 

 them those of well-known scientists — Prof. Baird, Geo. 

 N. Lawrence, Mrs. T. M. Brewer, E. Coues, Everett 

 Smith, I. Nesbitt, H. E. Dresser, W. T. Hornaday, N. 

 Clifford Brown. The following letter may well close the 

 record of the year 1883. It is one of the last received 

 from Prof. Baird and shows conclusively that he regarded 

 the work of Mr. Boardman upon the birds of Eastern 

 North America as practically complete. The list enclosed 

 in the letter is endorsed : "Additions to Mr. Boardman's 

 Catalogue of the Birds of Calais, Maine, 1862, included 

 in Prof. Baird's manuscript supplementary list; thirty- 

 two species, nomenclature of 1859 catalogue; R. R." 

 (Robert Ridgway) : 



Washington, D. C, Dec. 10, 1883. 

 Dear Mr. Boaruman: 



Many years ago I undertook, during one of my visits to Mill- 

 town, to help you with a catalogue of birds of eastern Maine and 

 between us we made out about thirty-one species in addition to 

 what you had previously reported upon. This list has been 

 among my papers for probably fifteen j^ears or more, and coming 

 across it a few days since, I spoke to Mr. Ridgwa}- about putting 

 it iu form and arranging for its publication either in the proceed- 

 ings of the Boston Society of Natural History, or of the National 

 Museum — you to be the author of the paper. 



I now send you the names that I have, so that if you think 

 proper you may make any additions thereto tliat occur to you. It 

 would be well to add any paragraphs about dates, habits and con- 

 ditions of discoverJ^ 



