Excerpt from Bulletin of the Nuttall Ornithological Club, 1876, Vol. 1: A Quarterly Journal of Ornithology The above are the principal differences, and together with Audubon's fine plate, which is a perfect facsimile of my bird, give a most emphatic contradiction to all assertions that Audu bon was unable to distinguish the difference between Bateo vul garis and what to him would have been a new bird. This noted ornithologist was constantly on the lookout for new species with which to embellish his book, and it is extremely improbable that he would have let such an opportunity escape him. The descriptive points given are enough to separate Audu bon's bird from all others, but as if to give more weight to his testimony we find him saying as a final to his article: When compared with European specimens, mine have the bill somewhat stronger; but in all other respects, including the scutella and scales of the feet and toes, and the structure of the wings and tail, the parts are similar. It will be noticed that he uses the plural mine, for before this was appended he had received another, also shot by Dr. Townsend, on the plains of the Snake River. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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