establishment ^getting sdtne taxidermist supplies, a few days after I haff 



gathered in this bird,' and I spoKe to Kt. Webster about it,oasuallv, 

 and he asXed rae as a personal fa\ror to allow him to pat it in the "0. 

 and 0.« When later Kr. Brewster's edition of "Ivlinot" came out, I vms 

 somewhat startled at finding the following:- "As this Dird was seen in 

 the sarao place on the previous day,- and as it was in full song on both 

 oooasions, t'lere were some grounds for suspecting that it was breeding, 

 although no proof of this was actually obtained, '^n . B." 



facts of the case, and as h^ is a pretty careful man, I oonoluded that 

 ray raeaory m-'ist have played me false, and never even loolced up my notes 

 until this t-orning; "out all these years I have had^deep down in my 

 boots somewhere^ a snealcing si.;ispiclon that I saw this bird before "the 

 previous day," and if I did not see him before that day, I never for 

 the lifo of me could, see why Ivlr. Brewster thought "there we"^e some 

 grounds for suspecting that it was breeding." A bird ought to be able 

 to stay t?;o days in one place without Deing accused of summering. 



As Mr. Brewster was, I supposed ^thoroughly conversant with the 



f?incerely yours. 



