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but I hope to get more soon. I have made arrangements with 

 several men & boys in various parts of the country, fifteen twenty 

 or thirty miles off in several directions, to secure a number of 

 squirrels, weasels, and anything else. I have heard a good deal 

 of a fox entirely black, on our mountains, and have been promised 

 one before the summer js over. I do not know whether I shall 

 be able to go to Maine & New Hampshire in the summer, if I can 

 afford it I shall go, if not I must stay at home and get what I can 

 here. I suppose that the First Number of the "Quadrupeds of 

 North America" is out by this time, I hope that it will be hailed 

 by a large list of Subscribers, and will do what I can for this desir- 

 able end. Please let me know in what order the animals will 

 appear, and what ones are in the No; also any other news in the 

 zoological line. 



Vegetation is wonderly advanced with us, and if no frost or 

 other casualty interferes, the abundance of fruit and everything 

 else will be unparalleled. All the fruit trees are loaded, and the 

 young peaches, cherries, & even apples and pears are well formed. 

 Wheat and rye are in the finest condition, the lettuce is in full head. 

 By the by while I think of it, what do you think of several swan 

 having been killed, so far [in] the interior of this state as Chain- 

 berburg. 1 There is less water there than here, and a flock of four- 

 teen kept about the town for several days. A good many Wild 

 Geese have also been killed all over our county, in the various 

 streams about. I must stop now or my letter will be too late for 

 the mail. Give my best respects to your kind family and any of 

 our mutual acquaintances, and Believe me 



Your Affectionate Pupil 



Spencer F. Baird. 



P. S. You ask me if I have heard from Dr. Bachman. 2 I have 

 not, but nothing would give me greater pleasure than receiving a 

 letter from him, excepting one from yourself. 

 [Superscription] John J. Audubon Esq. 

 formerly, "86 White St." 

 New York. 



N. Y. 



1 Capital of Franklin County, 157 miles west of Philadelphia. 



2 Rev. John Baehman, D. D., born in Rhinebeck, N. Y., Feb. 4, 1790, died in 

 Charleston, S. C, Feb. 24, 1874. 



