CLEANLINESS. 



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Night-Heron. 



Wilson remarked that in specimens which he pro- 

 cured of the night-heron (Nycticorax Europ&us, 

 STEPHENS), the middle claws, serrated on the^inside 

 with from thirty-five to forty teeth, contained " parti- 

 cles of the down of the bird, showing evidently from 



Pectinated claw of Night-Heron. 



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