58 SPENCER FULLERTON BAIRD 
Esquimaux Curlew, Young Ibis, Ivory Heron, Eider Duck, & Two 
species of Tern, Three species of Gulls, one Jager, Two species of 
Guillemots, Red throated Diver, Red Necked Grebe, and the Little 
Grebe, Podiceps minutus of Nuttall. Also, Peregrine Falcon, Rough 
legged Buzzard, Prairie Warbler, Lapland Longspur, Snow Bunting, 
Blue Jay, Flycatcher, Mango Humming Bird, Pine Grosbeak, Com- 
mon Cross Bill, Lesser Redpoll, Canada Grouse, and some more I 
do not know. Besides this I am going to get a number more. Some 
of these I obtained from a Young man Named Brashear, of Brooklyn 
who has a good many water birds. Some I got from Mr. Giraud 
who has, as I told you before, the best collection of American Birds 
I ever saw. But the most I procured from a young man named Peale, 
son of Peale’s Museum in New York. I am to send him when I go 
home great numbers of Unios, snail shells, and fossils which can be 
very easily done. Giraud, and Brashear have promised to get me as 
full a collection of shore birds as they can in the spring. This they 
can and will do as they are rich and do nothing but shoot. Brashear 
kills more ducks and shore birds than any young man about here. 
I showed Mr. Audubon the birds I brought with me and the 
Result is as follows: The big woodpecker is Picus Audubont. The 
little one is probably new, The thrush is Young Turdus Wilsoni? 
The former Muscicapa Leibi is the true Muscicapa Pusilla, while 
the former Muscicapa Pusilla is beyond all doubt NEW. The old 
man still continues to be as clever as ever; he even offered the other 
day to teach me to paint & draw after his own peculiar manner, on 
condition of telling no one, and I have already commenced with 
him. I have drawn (from his originals) Fox Colored Sparrow, Cedar 
Bird, and am now at the feet of Harris’ Buzzard. He is now drawing 
Vespertilio Noctivagans, and just finished a rabbit; they are the 
most exquisite things in the world, I only wish you were here to see 
them. He gave me to-day a copy of his letter press 5 vols. a pretty 
clever present, and is going to give me some rare bird skins. 
I have just finished the other day looking over Major Leconte’s 
Entomological drawings, of which he has about gooo sheets, a species 
to each sheet; they are most beautifully executed. The Major is 
a first Cousin of Grandmother’s. 
They have some very good books here. The second vol. of 
Swainson’s Fishes, Amphibians and Reptiles, which you know con- 
