88 PUBLICATIONS OF SPENCER F. BAIRD. 



1860. Baird, Spencer F.— Contiuued. 



"ADVERTISEMENT. 



" The present work is, in part, a reprint of the General Report on North American Birds 

 presented to the Department of War, and published in October, 1858, as one of the series of 

 'Reports of Explorations and Surveys of a Eailroad Route to the Pacific Ocean.' In this 

 volume, however, will be found many important additions and corrections, including detailed 

 lists of plates, both numerical and systematic, descriptions of newly-discovered species, &c., 

 not in the original edition. 



" The Atlas contains one hundred plates, representing one hundred and forty-eight new or 

 unfigured siiecies of North American birds. Of these plates about fifty appear for the first 

 time, having been prepared expressly for this work. The remainder form the ornithological 

 illustrations of the Reports of the Pacific Railroad Survey, and of the United States and 

 Mexican Boundary Survey under Major Emory, and are distributed throughout the numerous 

 volumes composing those series. All have, however, been carefully retouched and lettered 

 for this edition, and quite a number redrawn entirely from better and more characteristic 

 specimens. In fact, the plates of the Atlas have been prepared expressly for the present 

 edition with the utmost care and attention. 



"In the volume of text will be found a complete account of the birds of North America, 

 brought down to the present time, including accurate descriptions of all known species; 

 their arrangement in the genera and families recognized by modern zoologists ; their geo- 

 graphical distribution ; and, as far as possible, all other information necessary to a complete 

 summary or manual of North A merican ornithology. No other work extant gives a com- 

 plete ornithology of our country ; and it has been the especial object of the authors and 

 publishers to adapt it to the wants of the student and lover of nature, and to present in a 

 condensed form, and at a price within the reach of all, a reliable text-book in this favorite 

 department of natural history. Extended bibliographical notices, embracing full references 

 to very nearly aU authors on American ornithology, have been added, and will be found to 

 be of high interest to the student and naturalist." 



The only difierence between this volume and Vol. IX of the Pacific R. R. Survey consists 

 in the addition of preface and difierent lists of plates. The first few pages are arranged dif- 

 ferently, as the following table will show : 



In this volume. p^RsS^. 



Advertisement p. i absent. 



Preface iii absents 



Explanation of the plates vii absent. 



Systematic list of illustrations xiil absent. 



Systematic list of higher groups xvii p. xvii. 



The remaining pages appear to be precisely the same. 



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1860. Baird, Spencer F. The Birds | of j North America; | the descriptions of 

 species based chiefly on the collections | in the | Museum of the Smithsonian 

 Institution. | By | Spencer F. Baird, | Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian 

 Institution, | with the co-operation of | John Cassin | of the Academy of 

 Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, | and George N. Lawrence, | of the Lyceum 

 of Natural History of New York. | With an Atlas of One Hundred Plates. | 

 - Atlas. I — I Philadelphia: | J. B. Lippincott & Co. | 1860. | 4to. p. (2)i-xi(l), 

 100 plates. 



" The present Atlas has been prepared for the two-fold purpose of completing the series of 

 illustrations of the Birds of North America, and to give accurate and easily recognized 

 figures of the numerous hitherto unknown birds described in the first volume. It contains 

 figures of all birds inhabiting the United States which have not been given by former Amer- 

 ican authors, in connection with whose works it continues and concludes, as far as possible, 

 to the present time the pictorial representation of all North American birds. In the accom- 

 panying volume of text will bo found descriptions of all the known birds of the United 

 States ; their arrangement in the genera and families of modern zoologists ; their geographi- 

 cal distribution ; and, it is believed, everything necessary to a complete and thorough 

 knowledge of this favorite department of the natural history of our country. 



" In 1843 the distinguished ornithologist, Mr. Atidubon, brought to a completion the second 

 and last edition of his great work on the Birds of North America, in which are given faith- 

 ful and accurate representations of nearly five hundred species. This elaborate work in- 

 cluded all the birds known to that celebrated author as inhabiting the continent of America 

 north of Mexico. 



