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PACIFIC COAST BIRDS 
BIRD-LORE lias in preparation a 
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birds to be issued as Educational Leaf- 
lets and to be illustrated by full-page 
colored plates from drawings by Allan 
Brooks. 
The first of the series, on the Cali- 
I fornia Valley Quail, by Joseph Mailliard, 
j will appear in the issue for September- 
October, 1912; the second, on the Willow 
Ptarmigan, by Joseph Grinnell, in the 
issue for November-Deceraber. Others 
will follow through 1913. 
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BIRDS 
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By Chester a. Reed, b. S. 
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I The opening and closing chapters take up 
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Good and accurate illustrations give the 
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