Vancouver, Oct. 10 I gather that Scheffer got a good deal of the material for the Scheffer-Cottam paper from Cramming, or at least in the neighborhood which the latter has made known in this connection. Other birds we saw in the vicinity were: Robin, a good many berry-feeding on hawthorne, dogwood, grapes, mulberry, etc.; Song Sparrow, many heard and some seen; Killdeer, 1; English Sparrows, numerous. Cramming lives meagerly, as this now pretty close to the edge of poverty; moreover his health is poor – cancer, botulism, hinted at by his wife in conversation with Mrs. Y. Even so, he is, to me, rather attractively enthusiastic concerning birds, mammals, and the plants in his garden. He is raising various duck-foods experimentally. He talks as if rather oblivious of anything commercial. This may account for his reputation as thriftless. But his education is obviously not extensive; and limitations of his reading in the general vertebrate field are apparent. He has rather positive ideas concerning subspecies, on the basis little opportunity to compare extensive series, or to read what others have published. His remarks show