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Aus dem Videnskabeligc Mtddclclser fra den naturhistoriske Fvrcning i Kjobcn- 

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1854. WAILES, B. L. C. Report | on the | Agriculture and Geology | of | Mis- 



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Very defective nominal list of 89 spp., followed by brief general commentary 

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1855. HEAD, J. F. Some Remarks on the Natural History of the country 



about Fort Ripley, Minnesota. < Ninth Ann. Rep. Smiths. Inat. (for 

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List of about 60 spp. of birds observed, with brief remarks. 



1855. HENRY, T. C. Notes derived from observations made on the Birds of 

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1855. KENNICOTT, R. Catalogue of Animals observed in Cock County, 

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1855. LE BARON, W. Observations upon some of the Birds of Illinois most 

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"I have thus hastily run over those families of land birds which are most 

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1855. PRATTEN, H. Catalogue of South Illinois Birds. A contribution to 

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Nominal list of 184 spp. " The following catalogue of the birds of the State 

 is, by no means, a complete one. With the exception of a few of the water birds, 

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1855. SCLATER, P. L. Note on the Sixteen Species of Texan Birds named 

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Identifications and rectifications of nomenclature in cases of nearly all of them. 

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Birds merely mentioned in a paragraph of throe lines. 

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< Agric. Rep. U. S. Patent Office for 1854, 1855, pp. 71 . 



Not seen. 



