Notes on some of the birds of Oyster Bay, Long Island

Privately printed broadside by Theodore Roosevelt cataloging birds local to Oyster Bay, Long Island, NY. "Notes on some of the birds of Oyster Bay, Long Island" was published in limited quantity in March 1879, when Roosevelt was a junior at Harvard College. Seventeen birds are listed with their Latin names, initials for the ornithologist who observed the bird, notes about when the bird was observed and, in some cases, additional notes about characteristics and/or predators of the birds. Common names for the birds are written in pencil in the margin.

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