Field notes: Eastern United States return trip through Canada and Northwest United States, San Diego trip,1916, and second Eastern United States trip "via northwest", v4546
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Toronto, Oct. 19 In J.A. Fleming's museum. Send him list of all the Hawaiian birds in MVZ, for his comments. Possibility of exchange for some we haven't! Write Twomey, to purchase some of his stuff from Hudson Bay. Fleming got some, and the skins are very good. Fleming's collection is remarkably extensive for birds of the world. He has aimed to represent genera and to get examples of insular and extinct species - with a large measure of success. He has bought extensively - from not only collectors but from dealers such as Rosenberg of London. Skins thus obtained are often poor data defective, but are so rare many of them, to be irreplaceable with any sort of "make" of skin. Fleming showed me the Family Phoceidae, worthly of Africa - an amazing array of species highly colored out with some with huge tails or other feather developments; then the Tanagrides, of South America; and the Corebidae; and the Drepanidae. Toronto, Oct. 20 T.S. Palmer says to look up for Calif. Bibliography: Alton H. Hyde,