PARTIAL BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ALASKAN ORNITHOLOGY. 



The subjoiued list of titles covers nearly everj-thiiig accessible which refers particularly to the 

 birds of the Territory : 



1811. Pallas (Petrus). Zoographia Eosso-Asiatica, sistens omuium animalium iu esteuso Imijeiio Rossico, etc. 

 Petropoli iu offlcina caes. academiae scientiariim impress, mdcocxi [1811]. Edit, mdcccxxsi [1831]. 

 2 vols., 4'^, -26 colored plates of birds. Imperii Eossici Aves, vol. i, pp. '^97-568; vol. ii,pp. 1-374. 

 This work, tliough printed iu 1811, appears not to liave been issued until 1631. 

 1831. SwAiNSON (William) and Richardson (John). Fauna Boreali-Americana; or the northern parts of British 

 America: containing descriptions of the objects of natural history collected on the late northern land expe- 

 ditions under command of Captain Sir John Franklin, E. N. Part second, The Birds. By William Swaiuson, 

 Esq., F. R. S.,F.L.S., honorary [etc., one line], and John Richardson, M. D., F. E. S.,F. L. S., member [etc., 

 three lines]. London: John Murray, Albemarle-Street. mdcccxxxi [1831]. 



Pp. i-lsvi, 1-524, 4°, 73 plates of birds. Forms part second of Richardson (John), Fauna Boreali- 

 Americana, London, 1829-1837, 4 vols., 4-^. 

 1839. ViGons (Nicholas Ayl WARD). Ornithology; by N. A. Vigors, Esq., A. M.,F. E. S., &c. 



Iu Eiehardsou (John) and others, The zoology of Captain Beechey'a voyage » ' « • perioruied in 



hia majesty's ship Blossom » • « • pp. 13-42, London, mdcccxxxix [1839], 4°, 12 colored 



plates of birds. 



1842. Blaschke (Eduahd). Topographia medica portus Novi-Archangelscensis, sedis principalis coloniarum Eossi- 



carum iu Septentrionali America, edita ab Eduardo Blaschke, medioinae doctore [etc., two lines, followed by 



quotation two lines]. Accedunt tabulae tres geographicae in lap. delineatae. Petropoli. Typis K.Wienhoberi 



et Filii. 1842. 



Printed cover, 2 prel. 11., pp. 1-82, 2 11., tables and maps. 



Pp. 22-24 treat of birds, 51 species being enumerated. In the preface the author acknowledges his in- 

 debtedness to Dr. Brandt for annotations on birds, and in the text he says again : " The number of wild 

 birds, especially marine birds, is very great, and I will enumerate them according to the classification 

 of the distinguished Academician Brandt." 

 1847. Brandt (Johann Friedrich). Fuligulam (Lampronettam) Fiseheri, novam avium Rossicarum speciem prae- 

 missis observationibus ad fuligularum generis scctionum et subgenerum quorundam charaeteres et afiSnitates 

 spectantibus descripsit. 



In Imperial Academy of Sciences of St. Petersburg, Memoirs, 6th series, vol. viii (nat. sc. vol. vi), pp. 



1-19, St. Petersburg, 1849, 4°, 1 plate. First appeared, in separate form, in 1847. 

 Title from Catalogue des livres publics par I'Acaddmie impdriale des sciences, ii, Publications enlaugucs 

 etrangferes, p. 41, St.-P€tersbourg, 1877, 8°. 

 [ 1 ]. Brandt (Johann Friedrich). Icones avium Eossicarum, tabula vii, inedita. 



The text to these iilates was never published, but some impressions were distributed to ornithologists. 

 Plates i-vii rejiresented forty-eight species of birds from Alaska, to which Dr. Otto Finsch has fur- 

 nished a systematic index in the Abhandlungen der Wissni^.liaft-Vciciu za Bremen, 1873, p. 19. 

 1856. Cassin (John). Illustrations of the birds of California, Texa^, ^oi,, I'.iitish and Eussian America. In- 

 tended to contain descriptions and figures of all North Amerieun UinN nui .;iviu by former American authors, 

 and a general synopsis of North American ornithology. By Jolm Cassin, lueuiber [etc., five liucs]. 1S53 to 

 1855. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co. 1856. 

 Pp. i-viii, 1-298, 4°, 50 plates of birds. 

 1858. KiTTLiTZ (F. H. von). Denkwiirdigkelten einer Reise nach dem russischen Amerika, nach Mikronesien uud 

 durch Karatschatka von F. H. V. Kittlitz. Erster [-Zweiter] Band. Gotha. Verlag von Justus Perthes. 1858. 

 2 vols., 8°. 



Some additional observations appear in the Journal filr Ornithologie, vol. vi, pp. 387-390, Cassel, 1858, 

 8°; and a notice or review of the work in vol. vii of the same journal, pp. 45-49, Cassel, 1859, 8='. 



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