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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
BUREAU OF BIOLOGICAL SURVEY 
WASHINGTON, D. C. 
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February 1, 1912. 
Ur. Alex V/etraore 
Box 626 
Ban Juan, Porto Rico. 
Dear Ur. Wetmore: 
Your letters of January 14 and 21 have come to hand. 
’Ve are glaci to see the nice lot of specimens vrhich you have 
sent in. 
In compliance v/ith your request we are sending you 
400 stomach tags and schedules beginning with No. 558; 200 
skull tags are also enclosed. In regard to the tags asked for 
on December 18, Ur. Ward states that he v/as not asked to put 
them up and consequently the probabilities are that they were 
never sent. 
Mr. Henshaw states that there v/ill be no objection 
to furnishing Mr. W. V. Tower a nominal list of the birds 
which occur in the vicinity of Rio Piedras. 
It will be interesting to determine whether iJ yTnna_si.o 
ever feeds on the ripe coffee berries. In our western experi- 
ments Mr. Piper has killed a few burrowing owls v/ith com 
poisoned v/ith stryclmino. We had supposed that the bird mis- 
took the bright yellow grains for insects. 
If you have occasion to change your post office 
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address notify us promptly. 
V/ith best wishes, 
Sincerel 
txe oT Economic 
‘gations. 
In Char 
