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-^ ' HISTORY 



BRITISH BIEDS 



WILLIAM YARRELL, Y.V.lt^.^ 



( APR 3 rlS/ 



FOURTH EDITION, IX FOUR VOLUMES. 



ILLUSTRATED BY 564 WOOD-ENGRAVINGS. 



VOLUME I., RPJVISED AND ENLARGED 



BV 



ALFRED NEWTON, M.A., F.R.S., 



PROKRSSOR OF ZOOLOGY AND COMPARATIVE ANATOMY IN THE rNI^^:RSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, 

 F.I.S., F.Z.S., ETC. 



LONDON : 

 JOHN VAN VOORST, PATERNOSTER ROW. 



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