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CouEs's ComfUments of the. Seaso7i. 



though the family affairs were still somewhat involved, — too many 

 lawyers, since the death oi fuscescens and rostratus, and the 

 extension of the canescens estate beyond Greenland. He begged 

 to hand us the card of a western relative, Leucosticte tephroco- 



tis^ to be forwarded 

 .rp.\4^J{ ^' to Mr . J . M . Wade of 

 Norwich, Connect- 

 ' y icut, with best wish- 

 - es for the success of 

 _-r.- the " Ornithologist 

 -<5r'- and Oologist," 

 ^:::^~v which he thought 

 ^^^ET much improved in 



;^^^^' health and spirits 



of late. 



Loxia curvirostra called with his better half, a compliment 

 which we appreciated highly. In spite of the slight impediment 

 in their speech we understood that they wished to call our atten- 

 tion to the increasinof number of ornithological articles contained 



in the Bulletins of the United States National Museum, as show- 

 ing that Professor Baird's first love still touched his own heai't, 

 as it did the hearts of his unnnmbered friends and disciples. 

 They expected to go to house-keeping early in March. 



