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Excerpt from Report on Bird Migration in the Mississippi Valley: The Years 1884 and 1885 The nomenclature adopted is that of the new Check List of the American Ornithologists' Union, with the additions and corrections contained in Ridgway's Manual of North American Birds, which, for tunately, became available just as this report was going to press. The number in brackets following each name is that which the species bears in Ridgway's Nomenclature of North American Birds, as published in Bulletin 21 of the U. S. National Museum, 1881. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.