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Coues^s Compliments of the Season. 
[January 
P. enucleator spoke of 
his recent visit to “Forest 
and Stream,” where he was 
so pleasantly received, and 
where he found ornithologi- 
cal matters so ably conduct- 
ed by his friend 'Mr. 
Bird Grinnell. 
One of our visitors did 
not, we regret to say, make 
himself entirely agreeable. 
Perisoreus was inclined to 
be cynical, and entirely too 
inquisitive, besides profes- 
sing to know too much. He 
wanted to inquire when the Water Bird volumes of the Baird, 
Brewer and Ridgway “History of North American Birds” would 
be out, and whether the second volume of the “Birds of the Colo- 
rado Valley” would ever appear. We told him plainly that was 
nullum sui nego - 
Hi. He wonder- 
ed why Professor 
Cope did not pay 
more attention 
to birds in the 
“American Natur- 
alist.” Hewanted 
to know what had 
become of Mr. T. 
G. Gentry ; and 
whether Dr. C. H. 
Merriam was likely to do the Birds of the Adirondacks as hand- 
somely as he executed the Mammals ; and whether Mr. Frank R. 
Rathbun’s “Birds of Beauty” were likely to be a joy forever ; and 
whether Mr. C. B. Cory’s Birds were more or less beautiful than 
usual. He asked us if we knew (fancy a miserable Whiskey-jack 
asking editors “if they knew” ! ) that Studer’s Jasper’s “Birds of 
America” was having a good run ; that the official reports of Mr. 
E. W. Nelson and Mr. L. M. Turner were to be illustrated with 
colored quarto plates by Mr. Ridgway ; that the Rev. J. H. 
