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CORRESPONDENCE. 



The Possessive Form for Personal Bird Names. 



Editors of 'The Auk': 



Dear Sirs: — Black, White, Brown, Green, Gray; Hill, Pond, Moor, 

 Marsh, Wood, Lake, Beach; Fish, Bush, Crane, Stone; Little, Strong, 

 Swift, King, Small; — these, and others of the same sort, are common 

 surnames, and as likely to belong to naturalists as to anybody else. 



Surely this is a sufficient rebuttal of the arguments in favor of dropping 

 the possessive s and apostrophe from the common names of birds and 

 beasts named after men. 



Sincerely yours, 



Gerald H. Thayer. 

 Monadnock, N. H. 



June 15, 1910. 



