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CouEs's Compliments, of the Season. 



[January 



P. enucleator spoke of 

 his recent visit to "Forest 

 and Stream," where he was 

 so pleasantly received, and 

 where he found ornithologi- 

 cal matters so ably conduct- 

 ed by his friend Mr. George 

 Bird Grinnell. 



One of our visitors did 

 not, we regret to say, make 

 himself entirely agreeable. 

 Perisoreus was inclined to 

 be cynical, and entirely too 

 inquisitive, besides profes- 

 sing to know too much. He 

 wanted to inquire when the Water Bird volumes of the Baird, 

 Brewer and Ridgway "History of North American Birds" would 

 be out, and whether the second volume of the "Birds of the Colo- 

 rado Valley" would ever appear. We told him plainly that was 



nullum sui ne^o- 

 tii. He wonder- 

 ed why Professor 

 Cope did not pay 

 more attention 

 — to birds in the 

 "American Natur- 

 alist." He wanted 

 to know what had 

 become of Mr. T. 

 G. Gentry ; and 

 whetherDr.C.H. 

 Merriam was likely to do the Birds of the Adirondacks as hand- 

 somely as he executed the Mammals ; and whether Mr. Frank R. 

 Rathbun's "Birds of Beauty" were likely to be a joy forever; and 

 whether Mr. C. B. Cory's Birds were more or less beautiful than 

 usual. He asked us if we knew (fancy a miserable Whiskey-jack 

 asking editors "if they knew" ! ) that Studer's Jasper's "Birds of 

 America" was having a good run ; that the official reports of Mr. 

 E. W. Nelson and Mr. L. M. Turner were to be illustrated with 

 colored quarto plates by Mr. Ridgway ; that the Rev. J. H. 



