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FREDERIC H. KENNARD, 
Landscape Architect. 
85 Devonshire Street, 
BOSTON, - MASS. 
Boston, Mass., Apr. 3, 1A02. 
Mr. ¥m. Brewster, 
Cambridge, Mass. 
My Dear Mr. Brewster:- 
xburs or April 1st, received. I have not seen 
anybody yet who was able to identify that bird, including Clark himself 
who said he had shot lots of fellow Crowned Night Herons; out I am 
myself morally certain that it is nothing out a Yellow Crowned Night 
Heron, though he happened to wander into Nova Scotia, or whether he 
actually did, I am unable to say. 
I seem fated to go off half cocked where you are concerned, 
arfi regret exceedingly having raised your expectations. 1 am not very 
familiar with the Yellow Crowned. Fight Heron, but in the hurried exam¬ 
ination of the other morning thought this oird to be considerably 
smaller, ^ore numerously plumed, etc.. If under the circumstances you 
don't want your collection encumbered with him, I will put him in my 
orn, though ii ne proves to have come from the north country somewhere, 
he may still be of sufficient interest for you to want him. 
I was fearfully busy the other morning, or otherwise would 
have looked the heron up before Bothering you with regard thereto. As 
it was, I merely knew he was not properly indigenous to our soil, and 
though Wou would probably want him wherever his proper haoitat might 
