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10 days. Have you seen a copy of the small edition of The Birds 

 of America which I am now publishing? Believe me, dear sir, 

 With good wishes, your obt. sert., 



John J. Audubon. 



Baird to Audubon. 



Carlisle, July 1 1th, 1840. 

 Dear Sir 



I send you those birds I spoke of some time ago and would have 

 sent them sooner had I a suitable opportunity. I write in Carlisle 

 but I shall take the box containing them to Reading, from which 

 place or from Pottsgrove I will send them to Philadelphia. My 

 Grandfather and father lived at Stowe a farm about one mile from 

 Pottsgrove, and it is my intention to spend part of the summer in 

 visiting the scenes of my childhood. Perhaps I shall reach your 

 farm on the Perkiomen in my rambles, and I certainly shall in that 

 event look for the cave in the bank of that creek, should it still exist 

 there, and will listen to the song of the Pewee 1 if audible. I yester- 

 day prepared a quantity of arsenical soap to take along with me, 

 in hope of being able to procure some addition to my collections. 



The thrush I sent was shot last spring, and I do not recollect 

 anything about its manners. The Regulus was procured on a wil- 

 low over the Letort spring. 2 It was in company with many Ruby 

 crowned individuals. I send its measurements below. I have 

 not been able to procure any more individuals of the new? species 

 of Musctcapa. The stuffed specimen I send was much injured in 

 shooting and could not be prepared well. Will you please tell me 

 the name of that young warbler accompanying the other birds in 

 the box. I shot two of them together on a hickory tree; they were 

 rather inactive and uttered only a slight "tsee." The shrew in the 

 box, I found last fall lying dead on a path along the Conedogwinit 

 creek. Please tell me its name as I cannot identify it with any of 



1 See Audubon's account of the Pewee Flycatcher nesting in the cave on his "Mill 

 Grove" Farm. (Ornithological Biography, Vol. II, 1834, p. 122.) 



2 A small stream that rises about two miles south of Carlisle, flows through the 

 edge of the town and falls into the Conedogwinit Creek about three miles north of 

 the town. 



