Coues’s Compliments of the Season. 
3 
1883.] 
1 though the family affairs were still somewhat involved, — too many 
lawyers, since the death of 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 
toMr. J. M. Wade of 
Norwich, Connect- 
icut, with best wish- 
es for the success of 
the “ Ornithologist 
and O 61 ogi s t,” 
which he thought 
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 increasing number of ornithological articles contained 
1 in the Bulletins of the United States National Museum, as show- 
ing that Professor Baird’s first love still touched his own heart, 
! as it did the hearts of his unnumbered friends and disciples, 
i They expected to go to house-keeping early in March. 
