Wisconsin magazine of history: Volume 27, number 2, December 1943

              214 angie kumlien main december anas obscura i have never seen and if it does visit wis i believe it must be very seldom there is a great plenty of the green winged teal here in spring and autumn but i have never seen any here in summer time if what here is commonly called " sandhill crane " should become white it perhaps would be most likely to be the case with old birds or adult ones birds who have for at least 6 years had nest and raised young ones or there would likely be at least one white one among all the sand hill cranes i have occasion to see every spring summer and autumn but yet i have not seen or heard of any white sandhill cranes what they here call white crane is the ardea egretta which sometimes in august & september fishes along the lake shore though all of them i ever have seen had nothing of the crest or tuft of feathers hanging down behind the snow goose does not breed with us to my knowledge but among the many migratory flocks of geese that pass over in the spring i have seen some answering the description of snow geese as near as i could see when i spoke of goose eggs i did mean a canad and i have lately found out another of their breeding places where they be more numerous i am very much obliged to you for sending a copy of your paper if you would send it on to fort atkinson post office i would be apt to get it more regularly but letters to me up to the first of april must be adressed jefferson jefferson county wis because i am at pres ent working in the village and will likely keep on here till spring when i will move down to my old place if you want my services collecting eggs etc i am in hopes that i may have better success than the previous season i would like to know how many eggs you wish of those rare ones if i can get many if i engage boys they may bring a great many of the same kind viz quails of the rare ones you care not how many you say you wish to get skin of the sandhill crane i will get you one if i can — perhaps your society wants skins of some other birds procur able here i have reason to believe that i could obtain some rare ones perhaps phalaropus wilsonii anas bubida pelecanus americanus ster na nigra one or two grebes falco sparverius emberiza 	 illegible icterus xanth etc if the society does want any i would like to know how much they would be willing to pay for each because if i cannot reckon on remuneration enough for my expenses i would rather not procure any — my circumstances being rather narrow the trumpeter swan is here some winters one was brought to me last winter for stuff ing 	 i will try to find out more about the rail the next season brewer answered kumlien's letter on march 2 1852 in part as follows i was in hopes you would have named yourself how much you thought i ought to send you in pecuniary recompence for your trouble and expense in collecting the eggs for me 	 but as you have given me no clue i must be content to send you the same sum fixed as the value named by a taxidermist in halifax nova scotia for a box of just about the same number of kinds and eggs — i therefore inclose to you five dollars in a new york city bill which i am told is current with you if you think this not equal to your claim ... be free to tell me so if more than you expected you may pass it to my credit in prospective favors