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1809. Williams, S. The | Natural and Civil | History | of | Vermont. | — | 

 By Samuel "Williams, LL. D. ] Member of the Meteorological Society 

 in Germany, of the Philosophical Society in Philadelphia, and of 

 the I Academy of Arts aud Sciences in Massachusetts. | — | In two 

 volumes. | : : : : : : | Volume I [11]. | :::::] The second edition, 

 corrected and | much enlarged. | — | Burlington, Vt. | Printed by 

 Samuel Mills. | Sold at his Bookstore in Burlington, by Mills and 

 White, I Middlebury, Isaiah Thomas, Jun. Worcester, Thomas | and 

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Newburyport. | | 1809. 2 vols. 12mo size, but only 4 11. to a 



sig. Vol. I, map, pp. 1-514, 1 1. Vol. II. pp. 1-487 + 1 p. 



Orig. ed., 1794, (7. u. Vol. I, Ch.ip. VI, pp. 95-159, Dirds, pp. 134-14tj. A cursory 

 account, iu which the birds are treated by lists in several categories, as " birds 

 of passage", 'singing birds'", "water fowl", and those " which do not fall under 

 either of the above descriptions" (!). There are also uiisc llaneous accounts of 

 sever.il species, as the Snow Bird [Junco hyemalis], "Wild Goose, Passenger 

 Pigeon, and especially sundry kinds of Swallows — direct aud circumstantial evi- 

 dence being offered of the subaque'.us torpidity of Swallows, and of the hibern;i- 

 tion of the Chimney "Swallow" [Chcetiira peligica] in hollow trees. "'From 

 these accounts," says the author, referring to what he has just narrated, " I am 

 led to believe that the house swallow [by which he means the Chcetura] gene- 

 rally resides during the winter, in the hollow of trees; and that the ground 

 swallows [Cotyle riparia], find security in the mud, at the bottom of lakes, 

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1812. Kalm, p. Travels into North America; | containing | its Natural His- 

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 4to. London, 1812. 



This is from the 2d London ed., Forster's translation, 2 vols. 8vo, 1772. — See 

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1814. Lewis, M.,aHrfCLAKKi:, W. History j of | The Expedition | under the 

 command of | Captains Lewis and Clark, | to | the sources of the 

 Missouri, | thence | across the Eocky Mountains | aud down the ] 

 River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean. | Performed during the years 

 1804-5-6. I By order of the | Government of the United State.^. 1 

 Prepared for the press | by Paul Allen, Esquire. | In two Volumes, j 

 Vv.1. I [II]. I Philadelphia: | Published by Bradford and luskeep; 

 and I Abm. H. Inskeep, Newyork. | J. Maxwell, Printer. | 1814. 2 

 vols. 8vo. Vol. I, pp. i-xxviii, 1-470, maps. Vol. II, pp. i-ix, 1-522, 

 maps. > Vol. II, Chap. VII, " A general description of the beasts, 

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Thisis the edrfioprinccpsof the authentic narrative. — See especially Coues, Bull. 

 v. S. Geol. and Geogr. Siirv. Terr., Mser., Xo. 6, Feb. 8, 1876, pp. 417-444, giving an 

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 formal notice of the birds at the place above marked. Nolo of the species are 

 given under technical names ; but hero we have the first accounts of various spe- 

 cies, subsequently, in 1815, named by G. Ord, in Guthrie's Geography. See be- 

 yond fur various later editions and versions of this work, under 1814, 1815, 1616-18, 

 1817, and 1842-75. 



1814. Lewis, M.,and Clarke, W. Travels | to the | Source of the Missouri 

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