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OR N ITHOLOGY. 
(report of dr. p. l. hatch.) 
Prof. N. H. Winchell — 
Sir : — The present year has made no signal additions to the 
number of species of birds found to belong in the State. Explora¬ 
tions have been made over considerable sections hitherto unno¬ 
ticed, and more critically over those somewhat familiar to me in 
the past, which have been rewarded by much desirable information, 
but without any discoveries of new forms, except in finding some 
accidental stragglers from well-known habitats, as in the case of 
the cinnamon teal, Querquedula cyanoptera (Viriell), Cassin, 
found at Bigstone lake, on the western border of the State. It is 
highly probable that very little remains to be done in the work of 
identification. There can be no doubt that occasionally a species 
wnll yet be added from those known to visit the same latitudes in 
contiguous territories, or even from more remote localities. Sev¬ 
eral such have recently been added to the lists of such old states 
as Maine, Massachusetts and Ohio. Indeed several that are new 
to science have recently been collected and described by competent 
and reliable ornothologists, resident in those states, which multi¬ 
plies the probabilities that such will be the case here, yet this does 
not affect the conclusion that the list for Minnesota is about full. 
Entertaining this view, while employing the utmost vigilance to 
let none escape my notice, I have devoted my attention princi¬ 
pally to the local habits, relative numbers and migrations of those 
already identified. I desire in this way to make the history of the 
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