Excerpt from A Quantitative Study of Variation in the Smaller North-American Shrikes
The work described in this paper was begun in the fall of 1898, and was carried on at Harvard University during the year 1898 - 99 under the direction of Dr. Charles B. Davenport. It was completed during the winter of 1899 - 1900.
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