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Status: Needs Review

Boston Dec 22 1856
ansd Jan 7th

R Kennicot Esq

Dear Sir

I shall
be most happy to take advantage of
your offer to procure if possible for the
society, skins of such birds as are found
with you, and are either not in our
cabinet or of which we have not
sufficiently authentic or well preserved
specimens – The following list
comprises all that are wanting

[written in two columns]
[column 1]
Nauclerus furcatus
Lurnia funerea
Vires solitarius –
Tricha philadelphica –
Vermivora[illegible] chrysoptera –
peregrina –
Plectrophane lapponica
Pica melanolecca
Corvus corax –
[column 2]
Rallus elegans
Ardcolis exilis
Phalaropus fulicarius
Anser hyperboreus
albifrons
hutchensii
bernicla
Podiceps cristata

I should like very
much also to procure for my own
cabinet both skins and eggs of many
of the birds on your catalogue – It
is indifferent to me whether I get

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11/7/2023 Initial review complete. CE
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