AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY 
77TH STREET AND CENTRAL PARK WEST 
New York, June 3, 1912. 
DEPARTMENT OF 
IcHTHYOLOGY AND HERPETOLOGY 
Dear Mr. Brewster: Wes. 
I em forwarding you today the. specimen of, mud- 
turtle of which we were speaking, from Mastic, Long Island. Also 
a 
e spotted turtle of the common type there, with slightly rough 
shell, which may be intermediate between the smooth ones and the 
specimen of which you spoke. 
I wish you could have been there with me this 
Week end. I came ecross two eagles in an old pepperidge tree, 
sitting side by side like doves, and a third one about twenty-five 
yards away. I was within easy stone's throw of them all before 
they flew. They were all old, white-headed birds. 
There were also about twenty-five semi~palmated 
sandpipers on June first - a day later than I have record of them 
from Long Island. They were on a bit of marsh which I have reason 
to believe is on a migration route from the interior to the sea, and 
I suppose these birds went north by sea. There were 150 there on 
May 3lst, and only a remnant of these on June first, when they were 
very restless, and I sew none on the second. 
