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Coues’s Compliments of the Season. 
[January 
expected to call upon Mr. Ridgway and Mr. Henshaw, in the 
South Tower, and hoped to find them both well. 
P. nivalis and his 
cousin P. lapponicus 
apologized for appear- 
ing in unseasonable cos- 
tume, explaining that 
they had left in such a 
hurry, owing to an un- 
expected change in the | 
weather, that they had 
really not had time to 
change their dress. 
They left pleasant 
words for Mr. Brews- 
ter, in recognition of || 
his papers on the Birds 
of Arizona, and wished 
us to thank Mr. Purdie 
for his kind assistance 
in finishing the ^ second 
volume of k ‘New Eng- 
land Bird-Life.” They 
expected to be about 
all winter and would 
see us again later. 
A rosy little fellow, PE. 
linaria , was kind enough 
to assure us personally that 
he had forgotten all about 
the trouble we made in his 
family in i860, when we 
visited him in Labrador, 
and afterward spoke so 
shabbily of his appearance. 
His brother exilipes , he 
added, had settled in Si- 
beria, where at last ac- 
counts he was doing as 
well as could be expected, 
