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Birds Eggs; Th3 Sooty Grouse; California 

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Nj. b&.— cnat and Cliff Swallow; The Herons of 

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 Pajk. N. Y. ; Another Day ; with the Birds of 

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 of Florida; How tj Prepare a Bird Skin; A 

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No 90.— The Raptoresof Michigan; A Collectors 

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 Warbler; bcenes From the Life 1 1 Alexander 

 Wilson; Queer Myths About Birds; Band- 

 tailed Pigeon ; Caspian or Imoeiial Tern; A 

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 '93. 



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 in New Zealand; Courtesy and Business in 

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 Vicinity; A Few Hints on Camping; Short- 

 billed Marsh Wren ; The Prairie Horned uark ; 

 Plumage; Canadian Birds; Scenes from the 

 Life of Alexander Wilson; Among the Snake 

 Birds; Trinoininal Nomenclature; fifteen 

 short articles. May '93. 



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