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Yellow Legs {Rhyacophilus solitarius), female. 



Marbled Godwit* (Limosa fedoa), male and female. 



Iludjonian Godwit,* (Limosa hudsonica), male and female. 



Long-billed Curlew* (Xumenins longirostris), female 



Short-billed Curlew* (Numenim hudsonicus), male and female. 



Esquimaux Curlew* (Numenius borealis), male and female. 



Virginia Kail (Rallus virginianus), male and female. 



Yellow Rail* (Porzana noveboracencis,) male and female. 



Purple Gallinule* ( Gallimda martinica), male and female. 



Snow Goose (Anser hyperhoreus), male. 



Brant, (Bernicla brenta), female. 



Mallard, {Anas boschas), male and female. 



Pintail, (Dajila acuta), female. 



Green-winged Teal {Nettlon carolinensis), male and female. 



Blue-winged Teal ( Querquedula discors), female. 



Shoveller (Spatula clypeata), female. 



Gadwall* ( Cliuulelasmus streperus), male and female. 



American Widgeon (Mareca americana), male and female. 



Summer Duck (Aix sponsa), female. 



Scaup Duck (Fulix marila), iemale. 



Red Head (Aythya americana), female. 



Canvas-back Duck* (Aylkya vallisneria), male and female. 



Golden-eye Whistler [Bucephala americana), female. 



Goosander (Mergus americanus). male and female. 



Red-breasted Merganser {Mergus serrator), female. 



Leach's Petrel* ( Thalassidroma leachii), male and female. 



Pomarine Skua* (Siercorarius pomarinus), male and female. 



Arctic Skua* (Stercorarius parasiticus), male. 



Herring Gull {Larus argentatus), female. 



Laughing Gull {Ghroicoceplmhis atricilla), male and female. 



Kittiwake Gull (Rissa tridactyln), male and female. 



Least Tern {Sterna frenata). I'eniale. 



Doul)le-crested Cormorant {Gracuhis dilophus), male and female. 



Red-throated Diver* ( Colymbus septentrionalis), male and female. 



Horned Grebe {Podiceps cor«i<'«s'), male and female. 



Guillemot ( Uria gryllc), male and female. 



Foolish Guillemot {Uria lumvia), female. 



Tlie State Agricultural Library, connected with my office, 

 has received many valuable accessions during the past year, and is 

 now one of the fargest, if not one of the best selected, agricultural 

 libraries in the United States. The collection of works on the 

 Honey Bee is believed to be the best and most extensive in the 



