BULLETIN 
OF THE 
Nuttall Ornithological Club: 
A QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF ORNITHOLOGY. 
FIFTH YEAR OF PUBLICATION. 
Four Annual Volumes are completed, and the Bulletin enters upon its fifth year of publi- 
cation, with every prospect of success, under the same management, with a steadily in- 
creasing corps of contributors and list of subscribers, showing that it meets a real want. 
Th : s Bulletin is the only periodical publication in America devoted to 
GENERAL ORNITHOLOGY. 
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well as instructive, and contains a fair proportion of sufficiently popular matter to suit all 
those who are interested in Birds. It will be mainly devoted, as heretofore, to the Orni- 
thology of North America. Being a general 
MAGAZINE OF ORNITHOLOGY, 
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department of General Notes is rich in the experiences of the working ornithologists of this 
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