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possible that the author of the " Natural History of New York " might 

 have intended to refer to Catesby ; but the latter gave no plate of the 

 species, and only noticed it as existing in the very northern parts of 

 America. We feel confident that the geographical range of the Wol- 

 verene has never extended to Carolina, that it existed only as a strag- 

 gler in the northern portion of the Middle States, and that it is now, 

 and ever has been, almost entirely confined to the Northern regions. 



