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and the various extinct types are also mentioned. As a popular treatise 

 on the Class Aves, the work as a whole is entitled to generous patronage. 

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Bruner, Lawrence. Some notes on Nebraska Birds. A list of the 

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Biittikofer, J. On Phasianus ignitus and its nearest Allies. (Notes 

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Dury, Charles. Note on the Chachalaca, Ortalis vetula mccalli Baird. 

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Howe, Reginald Heber, Jr., " Every Bird " — A Guide to the identifica- 

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Lydekker, Richard (editor)- Warne's Royal Natural History, Nos. 

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 parts, 50 cents each. 



Miller, Olive Thorne. Four-handed Folk. 161110. Houghton, Mifflin 

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Montgomery, Thomas H., Jr. Extensive Migration in Birds as a Check 

 upon the Production of Geographical Varieties. (Am. Nat., June, 1896, 

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Noska, Max, und Victor Ritter von Tschusi zu Schmidhoffen. Das 

 kaukasische Kdnigshuhn, Tetraogallus caucassicus (Pall.). Eine mono- 

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Richmond, Charles W. Description of a New Species of Plover from 

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Ridgway, Robert (1) Description of a New Species of Ground Warb- 

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 120.) (2) Preliminary Descriptions of some New Birds from the Galo- 

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Rothschild, Walter, and Ernst Hartert. Contributions to the Orni- 

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