Vol. XIII, Nos. 1-12, Jan.-Dec, 1888, 

 PP. (vi)+192. 



Vol. XIV, Nos. 1-12, Jan.-Dec, 1889, 

 pp. (vi)+188. 



Vol. XV, Nos. 1-12, Jan.-Dec, 1890, 

 pp. (vi)+192. 



Vil. XVI, Nos. 1-12, Jan.-Dec, 1891, 

 PP. (iv)+184, (published at Hyde 

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Vol. XVII, Nos. 1-12, Jan.-Dec, 1892, 

 pp. (iv)+187, incl. 5 pp. adv. 



Vol. XVIII, Nos. 1-8, 9 and 10, Jan.- 

 Aug., Sept. and Oct., 1893, pp. 144, incl. 

 6 pp. adv. 



S. L. Willard retired at the close of 

 volume VI, and with volume IX Frank 

 B. Webster became publisher, and M. 

 Baton Cliff assumed the editorship as 

 a successor to Jos. M. Wade. Volume 



XI, Frederic H. Carpenter, Rehobeth, 

 Mass., became editor, with J. Parker 

 Norris as Oological editor, and Wright 

 & Bates, Entomological editors; Car- 

 penter retired May, 1887, and Wright 

 & Bates, the professional entomolo- 

 gists, July of the same year, when it 

 was published by the Bristol Ornithol-. 

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XII, after which Frank B. Webster re- 

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Volume XVII, the long familiar en- 

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A few copies of a suppressed sheet 

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