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Issued in continuation of the publications of the Geological Survey of California. 



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 BoGDANOW(M.). Conspectus Avium Imperii Rossici. Petropoli, 1884. (fol., 122pp.) 

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 CouES (Elliott). Key to North American Birds. Containing a concise account of 



every species of living and fossil bird at present known on the continent north of 



the boundary line between Mexico and the United States, including Greenland. 



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 CouES (Elliott) and D. Webster Prentiss. Avifauna Columbiana. Being a list 



of birds ascertained to inhabit the District of Columbia, with the times of arri- 

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2 ed. Washington, 1884. (8vo, 133 pp., with 100 woodcuts and 4 maps.) 



[Bull. U. S. Nation. Mus., BuUetin No. 26.] 

 Langville (J. H.). Our Birds in their Haunts. A popular treatise on the birds in 



Eastern North America. With comprehensive index. Illustrated. Boston, 1884. 



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