XXXVIU 



RANDOM NOTES ON NATURAL HISTORY. 



Specialtiesin Museum Hardware. 



The undersigned manufactures the Patent 

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Special new and impioved machinery for cut- 

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A Quarterly Journal of Ornithology. 



$3.00 A YEAR. 



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Puhliahed for the American OrnithnU>gist8^ Union. 

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 and with the departments of " General Notes " 

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