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'•BRITISH BIRDS; THEIR NESTS AND EGGS," 



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The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine. 



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THE INSECT HUNTER'S COMPANION, 



By the Eev. JOSEPH GEEENE, M.A., 

 Being instructions for Collecting, Bearing, Setting, and Preserving Butterflies 

 and Moths, Beetles, Bees, tlies, and other Insects. 



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 REVISED AND EXTENDED BY A. B. EARN. 



The Chapter on Coleopteea, by Edward Newman. 

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