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THE YOUNG OOLOGIST. 



convenient and useful condensed reference books for 

 the ornithologist or oologist we have yet seen, giving 

 the numbers from Ridgeway's, Baird's and Coues' 

 check-lists. One chapter which will be found very 

 useful to the collector of eggs is that giving the num- 

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 Also "How to blow and prepare Bird's Eggs," and 

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"To THE Editor of The Young Oologist : Dear 

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