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A MONTHLY SCIENTIFIC, ARTISTIC, AND INDUSTRIAL REVIEW. 



GUARANTEED CIRCULATION, 5000. 



VOL I., NO. 3, 



March 1, 1891. 



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EDITED UNDER THE DIRECTION 



OF 



MR. ADOLPHE BOUCARD, 



NATURALIST, 



Officier d'Académie, 1878; Knight of the Royal Military Order of the Conception, 1881 ; 

 Knight Officer of the Royal Order of Cambodje, 1889; Knight Commander of the Royal Order of Isabelle la Catholique, 1882; 



Corresponding Member of the Zoological Society, London, 1865; 



de la Mission scientifique française au Mexique et dans l'Amérique centrale, 1866; of the Royal Museum of Madrid, 1881; 



Commissioner for the Republic of Guatemala in the Paris International Exhibitions of 1878 and 1889 ; 



Member of the International Jury, Paris, 1889 ; Member of many scientific societies; 



etc. etc. etc. etc. 



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CONTENTS OF No. 3.— MARCH 1, 1891. 



Notes on Rare Species of Humming Birds and 

 Descriptions of Several Supposed New 

 Species in Boucard's Museum. 



Notes on the Genus Pharomacrus. 



Second International Ornithological Congress. 



The McKinley Bill. 



The Panama Canal. 



Answers to Correspondents. 



An easy way of making p^ioo a year. 



Report on the last Public Sales of Natural 



History Specimens. 

 Report on January and February Public Sales 



of Postage Stamps. 



[Entered at Stationers' Hall.] 



