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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. 

 UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



SPECIAL BULLETIN. 



LIFE HISTORIES 



as 



NOETH AMERICAN BIEDS, 



FEOM THE PAEROTS TO THE GEAOKLES, 



WITH SPECIAL KEFEEENCE TO 



THEIR BREEDING HABITS AND EGGS, 



BY 



CHAELES BENDIEE, (JAPTAiN AND Brevet Major, U. S. A. (Eetired). 



Uoiiomnj Curator of the Department of Ooloyy, U. S. National Mtisenm, 

 Member of the American Ornithologists' Union. 



WMH 



SEVEN LITHOGRAPHIC PLATES. 



WASHINGTON: 



GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, 

 1895. 



