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SOME few years since the British Ornithologists' Union appointed a Committee to draw up and publish an authoritative list of the birds of the British Islands. This Committee consisted of the following English ornithologists:—P. L. Sclater (Chairman), Osbert Salvin, F. Du Cane Godman, Henry Seebohm, Howard Saunders, H. E. Dresser, R. Bowdler Sharpe, and H. T. Wharton (Secretary). The Committee held seventy-one meetings, and ultimately a list of British birds was published under the title “A List of British Birds, compiled by a Committee of the British Ornithologists' Union.”
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SHARPE, R. The A.O.U. Code and Check-List of American Birds . Nature 34, 168–170 (1886). https://doi.org/10.1038/034168h0
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