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Killdeers, Meadowlarks, Quail, Deer, Raccoons, Fox Sq., 

 Wild Turkeys, a Wildcat, Alligators and Snakes were com- 

 mon all the way to the Kissimee River. Besides these I killed 

 numerous smaller birds, but had no time to skin them. At 

 Cowboy camp, on February 19th, I killed a pair of Ivory- 

 billed Woodpeckers in the morning, but had no time to skin 

 them then, as the camp was moved that day, so put them in 

 the boat and at night when we reached camp they were spoiled. 

 At Ft. Bassanger there were plenty of birds and game and 

 though I shot much it went into our stomachs and I preserved 

 no skins. On the way down the river Snake birds, Herons, 

 Gallinules were abundant, but nearly all I shot were "gators." 

 On the island in Okeechobee there were thousands of nests of 

 Herons and a few of Roseate Spoonbills. When we came 

 the Herons left and the crows came and destroyed their eggs. 

 In the lake I was taken with fever and ague. — " On the 

 rest of the trip he could not do much, mentioning only, that he 

 again meets Professor Jenks and Fred, to whom he turned 

 over the box of eggs he had collected, and that at a Pelican 

 rookery at the Sebastian River he killed six Brown Pelicans 

 with one shot, but could only keep their plumes as he was too 

 sick to prepare any specimens. The effects of this trip made 

 itself felt in two ways. First it kept him in poor health for 

 some time, secondly he became determined to have a collection 

 of his own and started out to do so most vigorously. Several, 

 articles from his pen appeared in later years in regard to the 

 camp life in Florida and some of his experiences there, but 

 that was all he ever wrote about it and he never published 

 anything over his own name in ornithological literature. The 

 records from 1874 in his diary's shooting list up to 1880 in 

 the fall are very complete except the last few years when he 

 went to school, most likely some medical college. In the fall 

 of 1880 he moved to West Bridgewater in eastern Massachu- 

 setts. There he lived till the summer of 1885, moving to 

 Hampton, Virginia. The entries in the diary at the last named 

 place are of no peculiar or particular value except in one in- 

 stance to be mentioned later on. His life's work as an Orni- 



