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DURING the year 1892 there were at least three publications which are of great value to ornithologists, though from somewhat different points of view. They are Prof. St. George Mivart's little work on the “Elements of Ornithology,”1 Dr. Gadow's“Classification of Birds,”published in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society, and Capt. Bendire's “ Life-Histories of North American Birds.”
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SHARPE, R. An Ornithological Retrospect. Nature 49, 6–9 (1893). https://doi.org/10.1038/049006d0
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