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in the letters of Prof. Baird niiglit be quoted to show the 

 esteem in which Mr. Boardman's acquirements in ornithol- 

 ogy were held by that great naturalist. Writing to him 

 on November 15, 1865, Prof. Baird says : " We were 

 advised of thirty -two boxes of arctic eggs, etc., this fall 

 they will not be here, however, till May or June, not 

 getting to St. Paul before winter. In the lot are 1200 

 more Ptarmigan eggs ; I think when they come I will 

 send for you to help catalogue them. A correspondent 

 near I^ake Winnipeg advises of eggs of Franklin's gull, 

 crested grebe, red head duck, etc., all new to us." 

 Again writing Mr. Boardman September 26, 1877, Prof. 

 Baird says : " The discovery of a Pine Grosbeak on Mt. 

 Victor is a curious fact. Can you not arrange to have 

 some one go there in the spring after the eggs ?" These 

 instances show the confidence placed in Mr. Boardman 

 by America's great ornithologist. 



All writers upon New England bird life and generally 

 upon the birds of eastern North America have been gen- 

 erous in their acknowledgments to Mr. Boardman to 

 whom they have been under obligation for many facts 

 stated by no previous naturalist. Dr. T. M. Brewer, writ- 

 ing of Eagopus albus, the Willow Ptarmigan, in Bulletin 

 of the Nuttall Ornithological Club, Vol. II., page 46, 

 says the statement he has made "rests on the high 

 authority of Mr. G. A. Boardman." Regarding this 

 species Mr. Stearns says in New England Bird Eife, Part 

 II. , page 145 : ' ' Mr. G. A. Boardman assures me that he 

 has been unable to satisfy himself that this Ptarmigan 

 has ever been known to occur in New England." 



William Butcher, in his monograph on The Labrador 

 Duck, in The Auk, Vol. VIII., page 201, April, 1891, 



