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UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 
UNDER DIRECTION OF
THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
WASHINGTON
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American Birds, etc."; and also, in reading proofs thereof, which have up to this time, covered 220 quarto pages of composition; considerable progress has also been made in gathering and classifying mat[[strikethrough]]ter[[strikethrough]] ^[[erial]] for the second volume

The following important accessions were received during the year.

From Mr. Frank B. Armstrong, Brownsville, Texas.^[[2 lines drawn connecting "Purchased" to the end of the last line and to the end of  the end of list of purchases, intent ambiguous]]
[[circled]]Purchased.[[/circled]]

[[strikethrough]]1[[/strikethrough]] ^[[One]] Nest and [strikethrough]]2[[/strikethrough]] ^[[two]] eggs ^[[of]] [[underlined]]Amazillia cerviniventris.[[/underlined]]
2 nests and 6 eggs. Sporophila morellette.
3 eggs. Glaucidium phataenoides.
4 eggs. Engyphtila albifrons.
7 eggs. Megascops asio mecallie. Purchased.

The first three species are new to the collection.

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