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Synopsis
Excerpt from The Ornithologist and Oologist, Vol. 6: Birds, Their Nests and Eggs
During the winter of 1874 - 5, while con ducting an ornithological department in a western amateur paper called The Reper tory, the writer with a very indefinite idea of his undertaking, but with a certain con viction that the periodical literature of America poorly represented the science of oology; while the broader subject of ornith ology did not count a solitary popular ser ial devoted entirely to the wants of those interested in birds and their eggs, conclud ed to commence the publication of an ama teur paper eminently for the Oologist.
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