FOOTNOTES:
[1] 1900.
[2] The formal record will be found in the Auk, vol. xviii. p. 394.
[3] How fallible a thing is a man’s memory! The wrapper was not yellow, but green. Yellow was for lemon. So more than one friendly correspondent has made haste to inform me, and the venerable shopkeeper himself has sent me a roll of the “lossengers” to prove it. My compliments to him.
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Obvious typographical errors have been corrected.
Inconsistencies in hyphenation have been standardized.