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in plumages, or even growth of pinions ! — and other equally 

 strange developments, due to ages and sex, and climate and 

 surroundings. 



There are other phases of this question of congested synonymy 

 which require considering, but I do not intend to discuss these 

 here, except to add : that, at least, those who use this method to 

 distinguish races, ought, I humbly think, to designate them by 

 a geographical distinguishing name, and not by nonsense names ; 

 and ought to be also assured that these geographical names 

 truly depict their distribution at all seasons, and during the 

 whole phenomena of migrations and change of localities at 

 different seasons — their true geographical range, in fact — or 

 otherwise their geographical range during their nesting seasons 

 where such differ from Linnean types. 



