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Is the Ring Neck a duck that breeds very far north? Have 



you the eggs? I may go to Boston soon and will take the old 



duck and chick, or if I do not go, -will send to the care of Dr. 



Brewer. I shall try to go up again and see if I cannot find the 



old male or at any rate get some good ducks to eat. Love to all 



the folks. 



Geo. a. Boardman. 



MiLLTOWN, Nov. 21, 1870. 

 Dear Professor : 



I received your letter a few days since. I wrote you in my 

 last about finding another black-red Squirrel ; since 1 have had a 

 very pi'etty snow white one with pink eyes, so if you have a 

 black one, I don't believe you have so pretty a white one, and I 

 hear there are more at the same place and hope to get another for 

 you. 



Since I wrote I received a letter from the moose man who says 

 he will get the skeletons this winter but says I must give him 

 more than I offered ; says the horns sell for five to ten dollars. I 

 tell him if he gets good large ones I won't mind a few dollars ; 

 we may have to give him $40 to $45 for two, but I want you to see 

 them before I pay, as he might lose some of the small bones. 



I suppose the little duck could be no other than Felix Collaus 

 but it was so small and so different from Audubon's figure I was 

 not certain ; there were some at the shooting party at Princeton 

 looking just like Audubon's figure, with white belly but all larger 

 than the one I took in the summer. I must try another spring to 

 look up the streams to see what ducks breed in New England that 

 we have never found ; the Barrow I think does, and before you 

 finish up your book I want to have some new things in it. You 

 must note the red Phalarope as breeding with us. Hope Maynard 

 may find some good things down on the Keys. I did not hear 

 before anything of Stimpson's expedition. He might find you a 

 skeleton of the Sea Cow along the coast. I think I shall try to go 

 down Indian river this winter after I get settled; think I shall 

 send my horse and carriage down for Mrs. Boardman to ride about 

 the woods — she and Willie I think will go down with me. We 

 shall try to go away about Christmas. Wish you could spend a 

 few weeks to go down and see the country. Alligators, etc., etc. 

 We are having nice warm weather for the season, mills all going 



