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frozen to death.
I must have skins of that "black
gopher" Promise some boy a
dollar that will send me five
or six next spring. Baird will
take part of the skins and refund
If they could be sent alive it would
be best but I could skin them
after they have been dead a week
or so. Enquire whether it
would be possible to shoot a
white crane. Baird would
give a good reward for one sent to
him early in the spring
If you are reading the "Nat
Hist of A.Z." just please read
about the Prairie hen carefully
In the last Country Gentleman
Doct Fitch has a long article about
the osage orange insect I sent him
He gives me much credit and
what is better mentions the name
I prefered for the insect Cocous maclurae