Springfield, Mass. 
December 26th, 1900. 
Dear Sir:= 
In one of your recent letters you spoke of my having recorded 
some of Holcomb's specimens. I did so several years ago, and I 
think they are all right. There were Dut three records based on any 
of his statements. 
1. The Fish crow. This there is no question about; the bird 
flew over a party of perfectly reliable men, engaged in a shooting 
match, at Springfield, and was shot by one of them. 
a. The Palm warbler. This specimen was said to hav@ been 
obtained at Windsor, fifteen miles down the river from here, and was 
sent by me to J. A. Allen of New York, for identification. There 
was no motive for telling anything but the truth, and for that rea- 
son and others, I believe this record to be accurate. (See Auk 
volume 11, page 181.) 
3. A part of the information upon which I made the record re- 
lative to the taking of two Uria lomvia recorded in the Auk volume 
14 page 100, was obtained from the same source; for some reason in 
late years this bird has appeared here quite frequently. If a person 
was going to sell imported bird skin for domestic, they would be 
likely to take a rarer kind. 
Yours truly, 
Mr. Wm. Brewster. Ii L /) pais 

