184 THE NATURAI.IST OF THK ST. CROIX 



Grand Manan lighthouse." November 22 : "I had last 

 week a very large Raven — twenty-seven and one-half 

 inches long and four pounds in weight. I never had so 

 heavy a one. I have only heard of one Snowy Owl being 

 seen. I send you a little fish which Mr. Wilson got for 

 us as he thought it a strange fish. I do not care to say 

 what I think it is until I hear from you as G. A. B. is 

 not a very good authority on fish and I want to get Mr. 

 Wilson interested in saving anything strange so I can 

 send it to you for identification." December 3 : "I am 

 very glad I sent you a Down P^ast bluefish. I did not 

 suppose they ev^er came so far east as this to breed. 

 That, with the Transparent Flounder, will make two new 

 eastern fish or fish not before recorded so far east. I 

 hope when your new 1)uilding is completed you may 

 have money enough left, or appropriated anew, to have 

 a good nice set of the best southern birds well put up. 

 Many of them are very showy, such as the White Egrets, 

 Ibis, Swallow-tailed Hawks, etc. You have all of them 

 now but they are not a credit to a National Museum." 



July 9, 1882, Mr. Boardman writes: " I want you to 

 name a hawk for me as I have had one sent in that I 

 cannot make out. I have it mounted. It is a small 

 hawk and not like any we find this way. I have none 

 in my collection that I can make it agree with. It is 

 about the size of the South American Hawk which I got 

 in Florida winter before last — not quite as large and not 

 dark on the back. Its back looks like that of Cooper's 

 Hawk. Head very light streaked with dark ; throat and 

 whole under parts white ; sides streaked with dark ; feet 

 and biU look more like a broad-winged ; tail banded, but 

 bands much narrower than those of the broad-winged 

 or Cooper's." 



