184 THE NATURAI.IST OF THE ST. CROIX 



Grand Manan lighthouse." November 22 : '* I had last 

 week a very large Raven twenty-seven and one-half 

 inches long and four pounds in weight. I never had so 

 heavy a one. I have only heard of one Snowy Owl being 

 seen. I send you a little fish which Mr. Wilson got for 

 us as he thought it a strange fish. I do not care to say 

 what I think it is until I hear from you as G. A. B. is 

 not a very good authority on fish and I want to get Mr. 

 Wilson interested in saving anything strange so I can 

 send it to you for identification." December 3 : "I am 

 very glad I sent you a Down East bluefish. I did not 

 suppose they ever came so far east as this to breed. 

 That, with the Transparent Flounder, will make two new 

 eastern fish or fish not before recorded so far east. I 

 hope when your new building is completed j^ou may 

 have money enough left, or appropriated anew, to have 

 a good nice set of the best southern birds well put up. 

 Many of them are very showy, such as the White Egrets, 

 Ibis, Swallow-tailed Hawks, etc. You have all of them 

 now but they are not a credit to a National Museum." 



July 9, 1882, Mr. Boardman writes : "I want you to 

 name a hawk for me as I hav^e had one sent in that I 

 cannot make out. I have it mounted. It is a small 

 hawk and not like any we find this wa}- . I have none 

 in my collection that I can make it agree with. It is 

 about the size of the South American Hawk which I got 

 in Florida winter before last not quite as large and not 

 dark on the back. Its back looks like that of Cooper's 

 Hawk. Head very light streaked with dark ; throat and 

 whole under parts white ; sides streaked with dark ; feet 

 and bill look more like a broad- winged ; tail banded, but 

 bands much narrower than those of the broad-winged 

 or Cooper's." 



