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In the spring of 1881, Brewster was invited to make one of a 

 party organizing for a trip to the Gulf of St. Lawrence. The 

 expedition, as stated by him, was " undertaken partly for pleasure, 

 but chiefly for scientific exploration and the collection of fossil 

 birds, insects and plants." The party consisted of the following 

 persons: Professor Alpheus Hyatt, Mr. Samuel Henshaw, Messrs. 

 E. G. Gardiner, W. H. Kerr, N. R. Warren and himself, and 

 sailed from Annisquam, Massachusetts, in the Arethusa, a 

 schooner-rigged yacht of seventeen tons. 



He published an account of the trip in the Proceedings of the 

 Boston Society of Natural History, Vol. 12, 1882-83, from which 

 the following is quoted: 



"The trip, as a whole, was attended by about the usual mixture of 

 pleasure and hardship, success and disappointment. Its drawbacks and 

 failure were mainly unavoidable, for our plans had been made with care 

 and forethought, and the vessel equipped to a fault; while the social com- 

 position of our party proved exceptionally pleasant and harmonious. 

 But we started too late in the season and the weather during most of the 

 summer was simply abominable." 



Most of the ornithological specimens accruing from this trip were 

 given to the Boston Society. 



In the spring of 1882 Brewster joined J. A. Allen in Colorado, who 

 was there on a collecting trip undertaken out of considerations of 

 health. He spent six weeks with him, collecting the birds of the 

 region, studying their habits and making notes of the spring migra- 

 tion in this interesting region of plains, foothill and canyon. This 

 is as far west as he ever travelled, and he always looked back with 

 great satisfaction to this journey, rich as it was in new experiences, 

 and to the first hand knowledge he therby gained of the plains 

 region and of its wild life, so unlike that with which he had hitherto 

 been familiar. 



In May 1883 Brewster visited South Carolina, making his head- 

 quarters at Charleston. His special errand was to look for the 

 Swainson's Warbler, a species discovered in 1832, but lost sight of for 

 over half a century. In his search he was assisted by Arthur T. 

 Wayne, of whom he became very fond. Although unsuccessful the 

 first season they were entirely successful the two following years, and 

 Brewster was enabled to secure a large number of specimens and to 



