SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO KNOWLEDGE. 



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LIFE HISTORIES 



1STOETH AMEEICAN BIRDS, 



FROM THE PARROTS TO THE GRACKLES, 



WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO 



THEIR BREEDING HABITS AND EGGS, 



CHARLES BEN1HRE, Captain and Brevet Major, U. S. A. (Retired), 



Honorary Curator of the Department of Oology, U. S. National Museum, 

 Member of the American Ornithologists' Union. 



SEVEN LITHOGRAPHIC PLATES. 



CITY OF WASHINGTON: 



PUBLISHED BY THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. 



1895. 



