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KEY LIST. 



By Lieut.-Col. L. HOWAED IEBY, F.Z.S., &c. 



Author of' Ornithology of the Straits of Gibraltar.^ 



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OOTHECA WOLLEYANA. An Illustrated Catalogue of the Col- 

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