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A Manual of Philippine Birds

by Richard C. McGregor

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Excerpt from A Manual of Philippine BirdsTo meet these deficiencies a large number of descriptions have been taken from previous works, notably the Catalogue of Birds in the British Museum, Oates's Birds of British Burmah, and the four volumes on birds in the Fauna of British India, while a few have been taken from periodicals. All copied descriptions and parts of descriptions are inclosed in quotation marks followed by the authors' names the exact reference in each case will be found in the synonymy of the species described. The quotations ending with Bourns and Worcester ms. Are taken from a...

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