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NortH American Birps. 
CONTAINING A CONCISE ACCOUNT OF EVERY SPECIES OF LIVING AND FOSSIL 
BIRD AT PRESENT KNOWN FROM THE CONTINENT NORTH OF THE 
MEXICAN AND UNITED STATES BOUNDARY, INCLUSIVE 
OF GREENLAND AND LOWER CALIFORNIA, 
WITH WHICH ARE INCORPORATED 
GENERAL ORNITHOLOGY: 
AN OUTLINE OF THE STRUCTURE AND CLASSIFICATION OF BIRDS; 
AND 
FIELD ORNITHOLOGY, 
A MANUAL OF COLLECTING, PREPARING, AND PRESERVING BIRDS. 
Che Fourth Lvrition, 
‘EXHIBITING THE NEW NOMENCLATURE OF THE AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGISTS’ UNION, AND 
INCLUDING DESCRIPTIONS OF ADDITIONAL SPECIES, ETC. 
By ELLIOTT COUES, A.M., M.D., PH.D., 
Late Captain and Assistant Surgeon U. S. Army and Secretary U. S. Geological Survey ; Vice-President of the American 
Ornithologists’ Union, and Chairman of the Committee on the Classi ‘ion and N. 1 of North A i Birds; 
Foreign Member of the British Ornithologists’ Union ; Corresponding Member of the Zodlogical Seciety 
of London ; Member of the National Academy of Sciences, of the Faculty of the National 
Medical College, of the Phi ical and Biological ieties of Washing 
of the General Council of the Theosophical Society of India, etc. 
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PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED. 
BOSTON: 
ESTES AND LAURIAT, 
1894. 
