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AMERICAN FISHES, 
A Popular Treatise upon the Game and Food Fishes of North America, 
With Especial Reference to Habits and Methods of Capture. 
By G. BROWN GOODE, 
Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, late U.S. Commissioner to the Inter- 
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“ Game Fishes of the United States,” &r^c, 
A HISTORY OF F E R U, 
By CLEMENTS R. MARKHAM. 
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OUR COMMON BIRDS AND HOW TO KNOW THEM, 
By JOHN B. GRANT. 
Beautifully Illustrated with Sixty-four full-page Illustrations. 
This work is a handbook for the study and classification of birds. The author gives in 
the body of the book descriptions of the plumage, size and shape, migrations, nest building, 
flying and other habits, the song, &c., of ninety of the more common birds to be met with in 
the United States, many of which are to be found in the British Isles. 
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THE OYSTER, 
A Popular Summary of a Scientific Study. 
By \V. K. BROOKS, Professor of Animal Morphology in fohns Hopkms University. 
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