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1865. WHITELY, H. Catalogue of North American Birds and Eggs, arranged 



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1865-66. DOWNS, A. On the Land Birds of Nova Scotia. < Trans. Nova 

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1865-66. DRESSER, H. E. Notes on the Birds of Southern Texas [and Mex- 

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1866. BAIRD. S. F. The Distribution and Migrations of North American 



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A very notable paper, in which the whole subject is elaborated with care upon 

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 comparative lists of species, in evidence of the facts of distribution presented. 

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 North America is divided primarily into two great Zoological "Provinces ", the 

 "Eastern" and the "Western"; the latter subdivided to afford a third, the 

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 of zoology ; and subsequent investigation has only confirmed the main features 

 of the present mapping, whatever the modification in detail required. The 

 migrations of the birds are treated in the same thorough manner, the interchange 

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