Longwood, Massachusetts. 
19 of May 1992. 
My dear Mr. Brewster?- 
I was sorry t -> learn today that you 
desired me to discontinue work on the Bryant collect¬ 
ion as you found so many misidentifications. 
I cannot understand how there are many, because I 
have taken much pains in the matter. Difficult groups 
such as Otocorys I sent to Mr. Oberholzer, some of 
the genus Agelaius to Dr, Ridgway for example, be¬ 
sides consulting Mr. Bangs on numerous cases. 
There are a few instances where I did not finally 
tag birds, such as in the case of hybrids, several 
being in the collection. These I label Jed with the 
name of the most apparent parent awaiting Mr, Bige¬ 
low’s later work , when he will publish on them. Of 
course there are a number of genera such as JSmpidonax 
exceedingly difficult of identification, which often 
no two men will agree on, and I labelled those to the 
best of my ability. If I had thought you could have 
spared the time I should have isked you to go over 
them for me. 
I have ceased work on the collection and have 
reported to Dr, Woodworth. If you will kindly send me 
a list of the specimens wrongely tagged which he 
says you have I will correct them. 
It seems to me a little hard and unfair that you 
should make such sweeping statements about my work, 
inadvertent errors are sometimes excusable. 
Yours sincerely, 
to William Brewster. 
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