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ADVERTISEMENT. 



The Review of American Birds, of which the present work, by 

 Prof. Bairil, constitutes tlie first part, is intended to serve as a 

 descriptive catalogue, willi critical commentaries, of the species of 

 American Birds in the Museum of the Smithsonian Institution; 

 giving, at clie same time, ;i list of the specimens, tbeir localities, 

 and donors. As indicated by the date at the beginning of each 

 signature, it was published, sheet by sheet, between Juno, IStit, 

 and June, ISfiG, and has been extensively in use by ornithologists, 

 although not regularly distributed to Libraries and Societies. It 

 is now reissued for that purpose, and, for the first time, with the 

 list of species described, and with an alphabetical index 



JOSEPH HENRY, 



Secretary S. I. 

 Washinot.in, D. C, 



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