283 SUMMER STREET 
BOSTON 
Dec, 22nd, 1908, 
Mr. William Brewster, 
146 Brattle St., 
Cambridge, Mass, 
Dear Mr. Brewster:- 
I have your letter of the 20th. I did not 
mean to give the impression that I would rather have the Museum 
have the bird than you, yourself, and thought I had left the mat- 
ter settled that you should have it, so I leave the matter entirely 
in your hands, and feel satisfied as long as it ie in the keeping 
of either one of you. I shot the Barrow's Golden-Eye on Friday 
morning, the llth of December in the marsh known as Nauset Bay 
at Eastham, Mase, There were 2 others with this bird, a female 
whieh I secured, and another male, but whether this other nale was 
a Barrow's or not, I could not tell. The female, I took to be a 
Common Whistler, There was a light Southeast wind with an occasional 
flurry of snow, I had decoys out and got a number of the ordinary 
Whistlers besides this Barrow's, 
Will you kindly let me know whether the male I shot is 
a full-plumaged bird or not and whether I could tell the female 
Barrow's Golden-Eye from the Common Whistler and, if so, by what 
marking. 
Yours very truly, 
