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A MONTHLY SCIENTIFIC, ARTISTIC, AND INDUSTRIAL REVIEW. 



GUARANTEED CIRCULATION, 5000. 



VOL I., NO. 12. 



December 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 OfHcet 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 fission 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. 



CONTENTS OF No. 12.— DECEMBER 1, 1891. 



To |the Subscribers and Correspondents of the 



"Humming Bird." 

 Books received. 

 A Visit to the British Museum. Natural History 



Department. 



Canal de Panama. 

 Obituary. 



New and Rare Species of Birds described in 

 Vol. I. of the " Humming Bird." 



Back Numbers of Vol. I. of " The Humming Bird" can be had at One Shilling each. 

 Vol. I. complete Ten Shillings. Only a few copies to dispose of. 



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