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 1854, under the Auspices of the Smithsonian Institution.< (Nine- 

 teenth) Annual Report Smiths. Inst, {for 1864), 1865, pp. 

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This is the first list of Missouri birds published. Notes and 

 specimens were collected in the Kansas City region. This 

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1872. Allen, J. A. — Notes of an Ornithological Reconnoissance of Por- 

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Contains notes of interest made during ten days' collecting 

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A review of J. A. Allen's paper listed above (1872). 



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Changes were made in this edition of the Snow list, but the 

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This book is invaluable to the student of birds of the Mis- 

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These lists of Prof. Snow may be consulted with profit by 

 the student of western Missouri birds. The number of spe- 

 cies is here increased to 295. 



