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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">You may want to check bird observation records or providers in GBIF to see if there is anything that matches what you have. Most of the providers have descriptions along with them that may give you some clues.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> nhcoll-l-bounces@mailman.yale.edu [mailto:nhcoll-l-bounces@mailman.yale.edu]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Erica Krimmel<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, May 19, 2016 2:43 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> nhcoll-l@mailman.yale.edu<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Nhcoll-l] Historic USDA bird observation records?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The USDA had a Division of Ornithology and Mammalogy in the late 1800s that recorded bird observations at different stations (among other things). Has anyone seen any of these such records already digitized? We have a researcher interested
in historic bird observations who is considering transcribing our paper copies, but before he does that I figured I would make sure he isn’t re-doing work, since what we have in our archives are marked as copies of what the original observer mailed in to USDA
(in 1893…).<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Much thanks,<o:p></o:p></p>
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