NESTS AND EGGS OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



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SPECIAL DESIDERATA AMONG NOHTli AMERICAN EUGS. 



N. B. The asterisk («) prcfixetl indicates that the egg of the species is either entirely un- 

 known to science or scarcely to be found in any American collection. The numbers are 

 those of the species in the catalogue of North American Birds published by the Smith- 

 sonian Institution, reprinted from the ninth volume of the Pacific Riilroad Reports. 



