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1873. Merriam, C. H. Report on the Mammals and Birds of the Expedi- 

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 Wyoming, and Utah]. < Sixth Annual Rep. U.S. Geological Survey 

 of the Territorifs for 1872, 1873, pp. 661-715. 



Birds at pp. 670-715. A systematic list of the species, with tables of speci- 

 mens procured, annotated extensively with field-notes, to p. 704. Follows a 

 similar article on the nests and eggs collected, to p. 712. Succeeded by separate 

 nominal lists of species found in Idaho and Wyoming respectively, pp. 712, 713. 

 Concluded with a compiled nominal list of all the species known to occur in 

 Utah, 176 in number. The determinations are understood to have been made 

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1873. MoNTEBELLO, G. DE. Sur quelques auimaux de I'Am^rique du Nord. 

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Traite presque enti^rement de divers Oiseaux, Tetrao cnpido, T. umbellus, 

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1873. N[ewcomb], R. L. [Rare birds on the Massachusetts coast.] 



< Forest and Stream, i, Dec. 11, 1873, p. 278. 



1873. PuRDiE, H. A. Notes on some of the Rarer Birds of Massachusetts. 



< Am. Nat.,\u, 1873, pp. 692, 693. 

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1873. RiDGWAY, R. The Prairie Birds of Southern Illinois. < Am. Nat., 

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95 spp. observed in two visits; about 140, of which 25 are water birds, breed 

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1873. RiDGWAY, R. The Relation between the Color and the Geographical 

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Chiefly controversial, being a rejoinder to E. Coues's criticism, op. cit, pp. 41.")- 

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1873. RiDGWAY, R. On some New Forms of [chiefly North] American 

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Catherpesmexicamisxiir. conspersus, p. 603; Helm^inthophagacelatavsr. lute cens, 

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1873. RiDGWAY, R. Notes on the Bird-fauna of the Salt Lake Valley and 

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Based on the same material that was afterward fully elaborated in Clarence 

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An elaborate paper, giving a risum& of our present knowledge. 1. Eastern 

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