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| Title | Essays on Natural History: Chiefly Ornithology |
| Author | Charles Waterton |
| Edition | 3 |
| Publisher | Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1846 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | Apr 9, 2008 |
| Length | 204 pages |
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