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found in Bexar County. All are copiously annotated. In the first eleven papers he reviews the work of his predecessors in the same field, comparing their results with his own, and also describing the topographic and floral features of the region under consideration. He says: "At first it was my purpose to record only the results of my own observations, but upon reflection it seemed better to embody the notes of the other observers who had collected in the same localities, and thus present a pretty fair picture of the avifauna along what I believe to be an important line of faunal inosculations, if such a term be permissible." He thus quotes frequently from the observations

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Quote verified by referring to a pdf of the publication cited (Proceedings of the U.S. National Museum, v. 10, 1887, p. 632)