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12. WILSON AND BONAPARTE. American Orni- 

 thology. One of the three great ornithologies of 

 the early part of the century. Like Audubon's 

 Birds, it retains some now abandoned names and 

 arrangements ; but, like that, it is one of the great 

 store-houses from which all later writers must 

 draw. It has recently been reissued in a single 

 large volume by Porter & Coates, Philadelphia. 



