Outgoing Correspondence from Robert Ridgway, August 7, 1864

              aug 17 4464 mount carmel aug 7th 1864 dear su it has been some time since i received your letter and as this is my first opportunity i thout i would write to you if i was to send for that book, how would be the safest way to send the money and the surest place to send it to please tell me where the north american oology by dr brewer mentioned in the pamphlets) can be procured and at what price i will also ask a few questions concerning the names of birds is the imperial-wood-pecker the large species 14 or 18 inches in length of black plumage dusky bill and scarlet crown and occipital-crest and also with white bands on head and neck no this is hylotomus pileatus: is the yellow bellied fly-catcher the large species with cinereous cheeks and throat and yellow breast and belly and also with the inner vanes of the tail of a pale ferruginous; no this is green crested flycatcher myianchus corniters;