CHRONOLOGICAL CATALOGUE. 8& 



1860. Baird, Spencer F. — Continued. 



"In 1853 Mr. Cassin commenced the publication of a work entitled 'Illustrations of the 

 Birds of California, Texas, Oregon, and British and Russian America : intended to contain 

 descriptions and figures of all North American birds not given by former American authors, 

 and a general synopsis of North American Ornithology.' Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & 

 Co. The first series, containing plates of fifty species not given by Audubon, was completed 

 in 1855, and has not been extended, having been superseded by the present work. 



"Many of the birds of the United States, not included in the works of the preceding or 

 other American authors, having been collected by the several parties for the Survey of a 

 Kailroad Eoute to the Pacific Ocean, and of the Boundary between the United States and 

 Mexico, as mentioned in the preface to volume I of this work ; they were figured in the re- 

 ports of these expeditions published by Congress under the direction of the War and Interior 

 Departments. AU of these birds appear in the present volume, but, in almost every instance, 

 redrawn from better and more characteristic specimens. Of the one hundred plates, how- 

 ever, of this volume, about one-half appear for the first time, having been prepared expressly 

 for the present work. Many of the latter represent birds of Eastern North America. 



"As already stated, the work of Mr. Audubon contains figures of somewhat less than five 

 hundred species of North American birds; that of Mr. Cassin contains fifty species. In the 

 present volume will be found one hundred and forty-eight species, nearly all of which are 

 now represented for the first time in any work on American Ornithology. The three works 

 together include illustrations of very nearly all the known birds of North America. A few 

 species only are wanting, chiefly of Eussian America and other remote localities, of which 

 no specimens are preserved in American museums. All are carefully described, however, in- 

 the preceding volume." 



EXPLANATION OF PLATES. 



[Note. — "Where not otherwise mentioned the specimens figured are to be considered as in, 

 the Museum of the Smithsonian Institution, and the numbers refer to the Smithsonian record 

 of birds. The original of each figure is indicated as far as can now be ascertained. The 

 numbers in parenthesis refer to the numbers of the plates In the Mexican Boundary series.] 



Falco femoralis, Temm pi. 1 p. H 



Buteo elegans, Cassin pi. 2 28 



Bueto elegans, Cassin pL 3 28 



Passerciilus alaudinus, Bon pi. 4, fig. 1 446- 



Peucaea Cassinii, Baird pi. 4, fig. 2 485 



Myiarchus mexicami^, Baird pL5 179 



" Tryngites rvfescens, Cabanis pL 6 739> 



StrepgUas melanocephala, Vigors pL7 702 



Podiceps cali/ornicus, Heermann pi. 8 896 



Podylimbus podiceps, Lawr pL9 898 



Graculus penicillatus, Bonap pL 10 880 



Falco nigriceps, Cassin pLll 8- 



Buteo Swainsoni, Bonap pL 12 19 



Buteo Swainsoni, Bonap pi. 13 19 



Buteo calurus, Caasin pi. 14 26 



Buteo fuliginosus, Sclater pi. 15, fig. 1 



Buteo oxypterus, Cassin pi. 15, fig. 2 



Buteo Cooperi, Cassin pL 16 31 



Ohordeiles Henryi, Cassin pL 17 153 



Panyptila melanoleuca, Baird pL18, fig. 1 141 



Chaetura Yauxii, Be Ka,j pL18, fig. 2 145 



Atthis costae, Reich pL 19 138 



Gorvus cacalotl, Wagler pL20 563 



Gorvus carnivorus,BsLTtia.m. pi. 21 560 



Gorvus cryptoleucu^, Couch pL22 565 



Gorvus americanus, Aud pL 23 566 



Gorvus caurinus,B3iiid pi. 24 569 



Pica Hudsonica, Bon pL25 576 



Pica Nuttalli, Aud pi. 26 578 



Garpodacus Cassinii, Baird pL27, fig. 1 414 



Melospiza fallax, Baird pL27,fig.2 481 



Junco dorsalis, Henry pl.28,flg.l 467 



Passerculus sandwichensis, Baird pL 28, fig. 2 444 



Pipilo mesoleucus, Baird .. pl.29 51ft 



