84 MEMOIRS OF THE NUTTALL ORNITHOLOGICAL CLUB. 



meeting, only a few months before his death, I questioned him closely as to his 

 experience with certain of the birds (especially the waterfowl), which he and his 

 brothers had found between the years 1834 and 1840 in the immediate neighbor- 

 hood of Cambridge. His answers, which I noted carefully at the time, were as 

 decided and unequivocal as if based on written records, for he had an exception- 

 ally clear and retentive memory. Indeed I have such entire confidence in the 

 accuracy of this testimony that very much of it has been cited in the course of 

 the present Memoir. I have also included several interesting notes which Mr. 

 J. Elliot Cabot was kind enough to send me four or five years ago. 



\\'iLLi.\M Brewster. 

 Cambridge^ March 30, IC/0§. 



