230 PUBLICATIONS OF SPENCER F. BAIRD. 



1858. Baird, Spencer F.— Continued. 



Sceloporus longpipes, Baird, n. s 



Fort Tejon, Cal. 



Sceloporus coucbii, Baird, n. s 



Santa Cateriua, N. Leon. 



Anolis cooperi, Baird, ii. s 



Califoinia. 



Family Geckotid^s:. 



Sphoeriodactylus notatus, Baird, n. s 



Key West, Fin. 

 Stenodactyliis variegatus, Baird, n. s 



Rio Grande and Gila Valleys. 



Family Xantusid.s;. 



Xantusia, Baird, u. g ., 



Xantueia vigilis, Baird, n. a 



Fort Tejon, Cal. 



Family Lacertidje. 



Cnemidopliorus inornatus, Baird, n. s 



New Leon. 



Cnemidophorus octolineatus, Baird, n. s 



New Leon. 



Family ZoNUEica;. 



Gerrhonotiis webbii, Baird, n. s ; 



Near San Diego, Cal. 

 Gerrhonotus infernalis, Baird, n. s 



rcvil's Eiver, Tex. 

 Gerrhonotus olivaceus, Baird, n. s 



Near San Diego. 

 Lepidosternon floridauum, Baird, n. s 



Micanopy, Fla. 



Family SciNciD.a;. 



Plestiodon leptogrammus, Baird, n. s 



Platte Eiver Valley. 

 Plestiodon inornatus, Baird, n.s 



Sand Hills of Platte. 

 Plestiodon tetragrammus, Baird, n. 8 



Lower Eio Grande. 

 Plestiodon cgregius, Baird, n. s 



Indian Key, Fla. 

 Plestiodon septentrionalis, Baird, n. s 



Minnesota and Nebraska. 



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1874. Baird, Spencer F., T. M. Brewer, and R. Ridgway. A | History | of ( North 

 American Birds | By | S. F. Baird, T. M. Brewer, and R. Ridgway | Land 

 Birds I Illustrated by C4 Colored Plates and 593 Woodcuts. | Volume [1-2-3] 



1 [Cut] I Boston I Little, Brown, and Company | 1874. Three volumes, 4to, 

 pp. : Vol. I, XXVIII, 59G, VI ; Vol. II, 590, VI ; V(d. Ill, .560, XXVIII. 



The present work is designed to meet the want, which has long been felt, of a descriptive 

 acconnt of the Birds of North America, with notices of their geographical distribution, 

 habits, methods of nesting, character of eggs, their popular nomenclature, and other points 

 connected with their life history. 



For many years past the only systematic treatises bearing upon this subject have been 

 "The American Ornitbology" of Alexander AVilson, finished by that author in 1814, and 

 brought down to the date of 1827 by George Ord; the "Ornithological Biography" of 

 Audubon, bearing the date of 1838, with a second edition "Birds of America," embracing a 

 little more of detail, and completed in 1844 ; and ' ' A Manual of the Ornithology of the United 

 States and Canada," by Nuttall, of which a first edition was published in 1832 and a second 

 in 1840. Since then no work relating to American Ornithology, of a biographical nature, has 

 been presented to the public, with the exception of some of limited extent, such as those of 

 Girard, on the "Birds of Long Island," in 1844; DeKay's "Birds of N. T.," 1844; Samuel's 

 "Ornithology and Oology of New England," 1868, and a few others; together with quite a 

 number of minor papers on the birds of particular localities of greater or less moment, chiefly 



