(2) spin collector in Wash. Recently he has had an exhibit of birds pin a sportsmans show therein spinning several interesting Washington takes - Electrolyte seal and the like. Brown also has a fairly extensive representation of the large waterfowls. We returned to Tacoma on the 10 o'clock boat. The gulls on the Sound now seem to be California evidently from the interior breeding grounds. Bowles says the Glayson wings don't come in from the nesting Islands. July 26. Went out to the Point Defiance park outside of town. The woods were very much the same as elsewhere if anything quieter, at present the summer clump seems to bear all bird activity. I had hoped to see some of the Guillemots at the park along the water front but did not.