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own account. As for Senegal, it was merely a gratuitous suppo¬ 
sition on the part of Temminck, too rashly converted by the 
same English authors into certainty, and it therefore remains 
strictly North American, for which country we have, besides 
Wilson’s and our experience, the unquestioned authorities of 
Vieillot and Sabine. 
