INTERNATIONAL OCEAN TELEGRAPH COMPANY, 
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EXECUTIVE OFFICES, 
No. 195 Broadway, new York. 
Key West, Fla-j^ 27th. 1898. 
Mr. Walter Deane, Cambridge, Mass* 
Dear Sir : - 
Your letter of the 21st, acknowledging the receipt of bird skins, 
is at hand. 
The Roseate Sporibill without label was procured from Lechevalier, 
the old Frenchman, who died about two years ago, It was never labell¬ 
ed. and is the skin referred to as being withut data in my first offer 
of these skins to Mr. Brewster. 
All the others were shot and skinned by me, excepting the Black 
Hawk, which was shot by an old market gardene* ; living on the outskirts 
of this place, from whom I bought the bird in the flesh. I do not 
recall his name just at the moment. 
The two other Spoonbills and the Owl are specimens of my earliest 
work in this direction. 
I shall be delighted to have Audubon’s account of the KeyWest 
Dove whenever your ov/n good opportunity offers to send it. 
White-headed Pigeons are fairly pie tiful hereabouts, but I have 
no time to collect them now, nor do I expect to do much, if any bird 
work, on my own on 1 -' til this war Is over, alt ho I intend to 
secure more KeyWest Doves ^through other parties if the thing is pos¬ 
sible, during the coming season. 
Your 1 s very tru1v 
