Key West, Fla, Jany 24th. 18 
Prof. Wh. Brewster, 145 Brattle St, Cambridge, Mas 
Dear Sir ; 
I agree with 
Your letter of Jany 16th reed in the last mail, 
you that it is quite proper to make Mr. .Agassiz acquainted with the 
contents of my letter of .the 10th of Jany. 
The two short-tailed hawks mentioned in your letter, are, I 
should think by the description you give of them, one of two pairs of 
that hawk I sent Mr. Scott last April. I bought all four of them 
from Lechevallier, through a second person, one pair at a time, and 
at an interval of two weeks. Two of them, without labels, were rathe 
poor skins, and had been refused and returned to Lechevallier from 
N Y by some one to whom he had shipped them there. I wrote Lecheval¬ 
lier for data and he informed me that both these birds had been col¬ 
lected by himself at Chatham Bend in January, 1894. Scott paid me 
$10.00 apiece for these four skins. I used them as a lever to obtain 
some sort of concession from him in the matter of the loaned skins, 
and if I remember aright, his proposition to pay me $75.00 for the 
latter was made with the offer to pay $10. each for the hawks. 
