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Volume IV. 



Whole No. 33. 



THE 



We^Ii <• ijmerican + ^cienlii^ii. 



JANUARY, 1888. 



CONTENTS: 



Reminiscences of a Naturalist, II R. E. C. Stearns i 



The American Crossbill Illustrated 4 



A Rabbit Hunt L. A. Welles 5 



Natural History Jottings T. D. A. Cockerell 6 



Turtles as Pets 8 



S. F. Microscopical Society 9 



The Missouri River Bluff Deposit .' W. R. Lighton 10 



A Sharp Family, II C. R. Orcutt 13 



Original Bird Notes 15 



Editorial 15 



Necrology 16 



Among the Magazines 16 



Our Newspaper File 17 



A Glance at Books 17 



Wonderful Mica J.J. Alton 18 



C. R. ORCUTT, 

 SAN DIEGO, 



PUBLISHER. 



CALIFORNIA. 



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