84 MEMOIRS OF THE NUTTALL ORNITHOLOGICAL CLUB. 



meeting, only a few months before his death, I questioned him closely as to his 

 experience with certain of the birds (especially the water-fowl), which he and his 

 brothers had found between the years 1834 and 1840 in the immediate neighbor- 

 hood of Cambridge. His answers, which I noted carefully at the time, were as 

 decided and unequivocal as if based on written records, for he had an exception- 

 ally clear and retentive memory. Indeed I have such entire confidence in the 

 accuracy of this testimony that very much of it has been cited in the course of 

 the present Memoir. I have also included several interesting notes which Mr. 

 J. Elliot Cabot was kind enough to send me four or five years ago. 



William Brewster. 

 Cambridge, March ^0, KpS- 



