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1893. 



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Alexander Wilson ..... Jos. M. Wade 



Distribution of the Mocking-bird in Illinoi- . . A. C. Murchison 



My First Day of Egg Collecting . A. C, Townsend 



Nesting of the Brown Pelican . . . G. Sirroni 



Xest of the Sharp-shinned Hawiv . . William L. Kells 



Late Nesting of the Bob-white . . . G. Sirrom 



A Home .\mong the Birds . . . R. S. IngersoU 



Brief Notes, Correspondence and Clipping- 



American Woodcock . . . . B. H. Swales 



Breeding ll.ibits of the Rubv-throat at Ballston, New 



York . . . . . . R. S. Ingersoll 



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