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Banvor,OCtu. louns 1896. 
Wm. Prewster Esq. 
Hear gous 
Your favor of the 8th to hand.I am very glad that you fayor 
tHe idea of: the United Ornithologists, .of Maine publishing: a. state: list 
oO birds, showing their distribution by counties.I will be very much 
pleased to receive on behalf of the society, 6£.a covy of your notes on 
the hirds of Oxford County after thev are vublished. 
We did intend to publish our list some time in dan. and may 
do so yet,if so we gwill plan to publish a supplement in the course of 
time when we have gained enough additional information to warrant, its, 
and can add the result of your notes to that in case they are not 
oublidhed “In time forour List.As 2 have a copy Of Maynard? 4 btet ok 
birds of Oxford county promised me. by .a friend, I can doubtless get a 
fairiy: complete Tistof: the: birds Pron that,how complete IT know not as” 
£ have not read Lt.: 
Of course we will incorporate in the list all records: that: we 
Can find in Ornitnological literature,and in addition the notes of all 
