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Gray of Harvard sent for a box of specimens; Prof. Chadbourne 

 also. Prof. Eaton of New Haven came up here to see it growing 

 and gather some. He had never seen it, although he was professor 

 of botany. I took him into the woods where it was as thick as it 

 could stand. When he saw it, he took oft" his hat and swung it, 

 exclaiming, " T am ready to die now ! " A little enthusiastic. 



"Have you seen the August Naturalist?" Dr. Wood 

 inquires in the same letter. "When Allen was writing 

 for the Institute proceedings, he visited me and wanted 

 a set of my articles on the Rapacious Birds of Connecti- 

 cut, which I gave him. This month's number contains 

 an article from him on the Screech Owl — the whole of 

 which, almost, is copied from my article with a little 

 change in phraseology but without giving me any credit 

 for it. I would not care were it not that Putnam wrote 

 me while the discussion was going on in the Naturalist 

 regarding the Screech Owl, requesting an article from 

 me. I forwarded him my article with slight alterations 

 which he has accepted and the proof is corrected. The 

 article will appear in the September or October number 

 and to those not knowing the facts it will appear as 

 though I had taken my facts from Allen without credit. 

 I am very sorry on this account." In a letter to Dr. 

 Wood on December 9, 18G8, Mr. Boardman writes : 



The Red Throat I wrote you about was brought into a taxi- 

 dermist shop in North William Street, New York, when I was there ; 

 Mr. Wallace mounted it. The man shot it in the souud, but did 

 not say at what part. The red was not very good but would have 

 boon in a very few days. I think in winter they do not have the 

 red-throat, but all I get as late as the last of April or first of May 

 have the throat red. I never saw a white throat bird late in spring 

 and never a red one in winter. I noticed what you say about 

 trusting to the gunners for names of the different kinds of birds. 

 They always see or shoot some wonderful birds, such as have never 



