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was surprised to learn from Prof. Baird that they had 

 not come. When on reaching New York he went to the 

 museum and told the director that he had not received 

 the ducks. The director sent for his assistant and asked 

 why he did not send the ducks to Mr. Boardman as 

 instructed last fall. He replied that he did not think that 

 the director knew how valuable they were, to which he 

 replied that there were ' ' no duplicates in the museum 

 too valuable for Mr. Boardman." 



Among the animals in which Mr. Boardman was much 

 interested were our native bears. Writing in Forest and 

 Stream of March 4, 1899, about the ways of bears, he 

 says : "I have found great trouble in getting specimens 

 of very young bears. The hunters, always in a hurry to 

 get their bear bounties, take them to the treasurer for the 

 money and he cuts off the nose from the skin of the old 

 one and the whole head of the little ones. In my many 

 winters in the south and in California, where bears do not 

 den, I have never been able from the hunters to find one 

 nor ever had seen one until it was old enough to follow 

 the mother." Great was Mr. Boardman's delight, there- 

 fore, when, in February, 1900, one of his woodsmen 

 found a female bear in a den wdth three cubs — "queer 

 little things," he says they were in an article published 

 in Forest and Stream of March 17 of that year. " They 

 weighed about twelve ounces each ; length from end of 

 nose to end of hind toe, twelve inches — not much larger 

 than a full grown red squirrel. They lived about a week 

 after the old one was killed. From the umbilicus being 

 entirely healed I should judge them about two weeks 

 old." A photograph of these young cubs was published 

 in Forest and Stream and is here reproduced. 



