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Transcriber’s Notes

--This catalog was bound with an 1896 publication of _British Sea
Birds_, by Charles Dixon.

--Silently corrected palpable typos; left non-standard spellings and
dialect unchanged.

--Provided an original cover image, for free and unrestricted use with
this Distributed Proofreaders-Canada eBook.

--Only in the text versions, delimited italicized text in _underscores_
(the HTML version reproduces the font form of the printed book.)

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