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ings on the other, with a sliding door to shut it up completely. < 

 This cost 5 dollars? The man says he has not got the skin of 

 the old one but will try and get it, he thinks he can do so, when he 

 will let me have it with the live one. If therefor you conclude 

 you want the Marten, please to send me the 15 dollars which can 

 be done in a letter. I had hoped to have been able to have pur- 

 chased it and presented it to you; but the price is far above my 

 present means having used up all my "spare change" during an 

 expensive three months absence from home. I can send it very 

 safely to Philadelphia, as I have a very obliging acquaintance 

 among the forwarding merchants here, who goes down himself 

 twice every week, and who would take great pleasure in feeding 

 the animal on the road and delivering it safely at Hall Brothers. 

 I have some skins collected here which are at your service. They 

 are Sciurus Cinereus? 1 ferruginous above & black beneath, Lepus 

 Sylvaticus, 2 & a very rough specimen of Hystrix dorsata 3 caught 

 in Clearfield Co. Penn. I do not notice in your list of birds to be 

 published in your supplement the Turdus Minor of Gm. 4 indicated 

 in Fauna Bor. Am. It is certainly a well characterised species and 

 abundant in our mountains in spring. It comes with Wilson's 

 thrush but in a tenfold number. I can send you very good speci- 

 mens if you wish them. How are your new birds to be published 

 and if in the small edition, can they be bought separately. You 

 ask whether I shall be in New York before you go to Boston. I 

 shall not leave Carlisle for several months. It is exceedingly 

 probable that I shall go on a long threatened trip to the coal regions 

 of Schuylkill Co. this summer. If I do I hope to render you some 

 tangible evidence of my having been there in the shape of speci- 

 mens and notes. Hoping to hear from you soon I remain 

 Yours Sincerely 



Spencer F. Baird. 

 John J. Audubon Esq. 

 77 William St. 

 New York. 



1 Sciurus niger Linn. 



2 Lepus floridanus mallurus Thomas. 



3 Erethizon dorsatum Linn. 



4 Turdus fuscescens: In the early days "mix up" on the genus Turdus, "Swainson 

 called it T. minor after Gmelin, and applies the name wilsonii erroneously to T. 

 swainsonii." (Bds. N. A.) " 



