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the Boganida till the early winter. Middendorff went to Taimyr Bay, 75§° N. Lat., 
on Aug. 24th, returning to the Boganida on Oct. 21st, and then all returned to Turu- 
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and Irkutsk to Yakutsk (Feb. 25th). Left on April 23rd for (Amginsk) Amgunskaia and 
reached Udskoi-Ostog on June 21st, and on July 9th they embarked on the river Ud. 
Brandt returned to Udskoi-Ostog, but Middendorff went to Academy Bay, returning 
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The first published usage of the genus name Aptenodytes with A. patagonica and A. 
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Cimelia Physica of Shaw, (q.v.) 
Consists of the above 60 plates, with 106 pages of text written by Shaw and published 
in 1796. 
Some of the names are rejected in the text, new ones being substituted by Shaw, 
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Reported upon the House Expedition and afterward Honorary Ornithologist to the 
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Described Amytis Jiousei in the Report Exploration North-west Kimberley, 1901 
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