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Authorities. — CUvicola rif'aria. Dawson, Auk. \'oI. XI\'. .\pril. 1897, p. 179. 

 T. [L-.] D'. Kb. D-'. Kk. B. E.(H). 

 Specimens. — I'rov. C. 



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THOSE who know, ci>ncfi\e a regard for this plain-colored l)ird whicli 

 is quite out of keeping willi its humble garb and its confessedly prosy ways. 

 The fact is, we have no other bird so nearly cosmopolitan, and we of tlie 

 West, wiio are being eternally reminded of our newness, and who are, indeed, 

 upf)n tlie alert for some new sliade of color upon the feather of a bird for each 

 added degree of longitude, take cumfort in the fact that here at least is an un- 



