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Notice of F. H. Snow's third edition of his 'A Catalogue of Kansas Birds' (8vo, pp. 14, 

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69. Extinct Birds with Teeth. <Bull. Nutt, Ornith. Club, I, p. 49, July, 1876. 



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70. Life-Histories of the Birds of Eastern Pennsylvania. <Bull. Nutt. Ornith. Club, 



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Review of Vol. I of T. G. Gentry's work of this title (12mo, Philadelphia, 1876). 



71. Decrease of Birds in the United States. <Penn. Monthly, pp. 931-944, Dec, 



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Their present numbers, particularly waterfowl and shore-birds, contrasted with the 

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72. The Birds of Ritchie County, Virginia. <Bull. Nutt. Ornith. Club, I, p. 72, Sept., 



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Brief notice of William Brewster's paper (Ann. Lyc. Nat. Hist. New York, XI, pp. 129- 

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73. Birds of Southwestern Mexico. <Bull. Nutt. Ornith. Club, I, p. 93, Nov., 1876. 



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74. Jordan's Manual of Vertebrate Animals. <Bull. Nutt. Ornith. Club, I, pp. 93-94, 



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Review of the first edition of this well-known work by David Starr Jordan (12mo, Chicago, 

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75. The Portland Tern [Sterna portlandica]. <Bull. Nutt. Ornith. Club, I, pp. 71-72, 



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Notice of William Brewster's paper on the "so-called Sterna portlandica^ which he 

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