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(The Birds of the Antilles and of the Coast Islands of Lower California are 
included icn the treatment of the entire subject; as Well as,(of course), 
the 9eCies that migrate northward,during their Winter,into our Latitude ,in 
August and September.Tharks to Germany and Britain,we are rounding up the 
Shearwaters and the rarer Petrels,fairly well.Some old-time records,-(for 
example,a citation of egg-dimensio Henrkorn,/kKet. 
a 
der Kier-sammlung,-Braunschwieg, [ss¢ I am having difficulty in running to 
Considerations covering the Entire Field 
have been crowded,more and more,upon me,in the 
germaine to my work.I have dealt with it briefly;yet in 
might well be made natter of collaborationj;not mere- 
ly National but International.The same is ue,largely,of the entire do- 
though I have never expected any financial return,for the real- 
labor involved in my Book,I am yet well repaid 
opadening of my oWn horizon incident with the research which hs proven 
sO exacting and so imperative. 
fervent hope is that Nesting Ways may not @isappoint those that 
made it. I am but one. 
Sincerely yours,- 
oe. 
idge, Mass De 
I believe vou have I T/6,Hea ith Hen:are there any special data connected with 
this unique set? 

