Hallock ,Minn.May.3,-?98. 
Dear Mr.Brewséer ,- 
Will you be good enough to name the avian 
abortion which T am sending you, along with the missing Grouse egg, -whe 
which turned up ,Bately? 1 have been trying,all winter,to find time tor 
shooting one of our resident Sittas ,-but failed,-until,returning,one'a 
day, from a goose-hunt ,T heard one,near town,-and murdered it,-after a 
long and exciting chase,with a charge of duck-shot. 
This Sitta preeds,here. I bought,of pot-hunters ,- 
buying,at a high price,to save fine specimens to science, -a fine pair 
of Blue Géese, 

