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Florida mocking wren

From: Baird, Spencer Fullerton.  A history of North American birds. Boston : Little, Brown, 1875

QL681 .B16 volume 1

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From: Leighton, Clare, 1898-1989. Country matters. New York : The Macmillan Company, 1937

DA110 .L34

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From: Lloyd, James T. Lloyd's steamboat directory, and disasters on the Western waters. Cincinnati, Ohio : James T. Lloyd & Co., 1856

F353 .L79 1856

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From: How to build, furnish and decorate. New York : The Co-operative Building Plan Association, 1883

NA7130 .C8

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From: American railroad journal. New York : J.H. Schultz & Co., 1856

TF1 .A3 v. 29

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From: Ainsworth, Henry, 1571-1622? Annotations upon the five bookes of Moses, the booke of the Psalmes, and the Song of Songs, or, Canticles.  London : Printed for John Bellamie, and are to be sold at his shop in Cornehill, at the signe of the Three Golden Lions neere the Royall Exchange, 1627

BS1225 .A5 1627

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From: Caldecott, Randolph, 1846-1886. The complete collection of Randolph Caldecott's contributions to the "Graphic" printed by Edmund Evans. London : G. Routledge and Sons, 1888

NC1115 .C17

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From: Le Moyne, Pierre, 1602-1671. The gallery of heroick women. London : Printed by R. Norton for Henry Seile, over against S. Dunstans Church in Fleetstreet, 1652

CT3201 .L42 1652

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