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claim my specimen, I found that the bird had actually fallen on his bearship 
as he lay snugly curled up asleep. 
The large collection of birds made by me during this season was further 
enriched by a collection of some two hundred specimens made by Dr. J. T. 
Rothrock and Dr. C. G. Newberry in Colorado. 
ACQUAINTANCE WITH CAPTAIN CHARLES E. BENDIRE 
It was in this year also that on my way to Denver for the field season | 
called on Captain Chas. E. Bendire, then stationed in St. Louis. Some corre- 
spondence on bird matters had passed between us, and I received a cordial 
greeting which led to a pleasant acquaintance of many years’ standing. Later, 
in 1889, I spent a few days with him at Camp Walla Walla, Oregon, where he 
was stationed for several years. Though-the Captain was an enthusiastic and 
most successful collector of eggs, he was also much interested in birds. and 
from first to last collected many, not a few of them new or rare. He was, too, 
an excellent observer, as was abundantly proved when he came to write his 
‘‘Tife Histories of North American Birds’’ which, to the great loss of orni- 
thology, he did not live to finish. After his retirement, he made Washington 
his permanent home. 
When I found he was in doubt as to the best place of deposit for his magni- 
_ficent collection of eggs, the fruit of years of collecting in the western wilds, I 
endeavored to influence him in favor of the National Museum. Though he 
seemed to be impressed by the advantages suggested he did not at once make 
up his mind. I therefore explained the situation to Prof. Baird, who talked the 
matter over with him, with the result that he presented his collection to the 
Museum. He was appointed Curator of Oology, and for many years had the 
care of his beloved eggs, and did much to build up the Museum oological col- 
lection to the preeminent position it came to occupy. 
MEET C. E. AIKEN AT COLORADO SPRINGS 
On my way to Washington from Arizona in the fall of 1873 I stopped off 
at Colorado Springs to make the acquaintance of Mr. C. E. Aiken, with whom I 
had had correspondence when he was living in Chicago. Finding that he was 
at his father’s sheep ranch at Fountain, a few miles off in the foot-hills, I pro- 
cured a saddle horse and in a few hours was talking birds with him at the 
ranch. He had already begun the collection of Colorado birds. The following 
season, 1874, Mr. Aiken joined the Survey and made a fine collection of birds 
in southern Colorado, amounting to over three hundred specimens. 
APACHES OF ARIZONA 
During this trip and that of 1874 I saw much of the Apaches, then some- 
what in their primitive state; and a wild lot they were. Though many were 
armed with guns of antique pattern, they had by no means entirely relinquished 
the bow and arrow. Most of the arrows were tipped with hoop iron, but some 
of them had stone points, which, however, they no longer manufactured, so far 
as I could find out, but picked up, the heritage from a former generation. 
Many of them still carried long, iron-tipped spears, but these, though wicked 
looking weapons, so far as I could ascertain served chiefly to play a favorite 
gambling game which consisted in hurling them through the air to a dis- 
tance and noting their relative positions. Altogether, they proved the wildest 
Indians I had ever seen, and confidence in their brotherly love and good-will 
