A HISTOEY 



OF 



THE BIRDS OF EUROPE 



(INCLUDING ALL THE SPECIES INHABITINQ THE WESTEEN PAL^:- 

 ARCTIC EEGION). 



BY 

 H. E. DEESSER, F.Z.S. &c., 



MEMBER OF THE BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS' UNION, OF THE IMPERIAL SOGtETY 



OF NATURALISTS OF MOSCOW, OF THE GERMAN ORNITHOLOGICAL 



SOCIETY, CORR. MEMB. OF THE BOSTON SOCIETY OF 



NATURAL HISTORY, &C., &C. 



A LARGE PORTION OF THE SYNONYMY BY 

 THE MARQUIS OF TWEEDDALE, F.R.S., Pies. Z.S., &c. 



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 the Zoological Society of London, 11 Hanover Square, W., in 

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 the General Index, Introduction, Key to Genera and Species, and 

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 he is enabled to estimate that the work will be completed early iu 

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