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1854. REixnARDT, J. Bemerkungen znr OruitliologieGronlaiKls. <^J.f.O., 

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Alia dem Yidenskahelige Meddclclser fra den naturhistoriske Forening i Kjohcn- 

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1854. Wailes, B. L. C. Report | on the | Agriculture and Geology | of | Mis- 



sissippi. I Embracing a sketcli of the | Social and Natural History 

 of the State. | By B. L. C. Wailes, | Geologist of Mississippi ; | [etc. 

 etc.] I — I Published by order of the legislature. ( — | Lij)pincott, 

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 > VI. Fauna. > Class II. Aves, or Birds, pp. 317-327. 



Very defective nominal list of 89 spp., followed by brief general commentary 

 on tlie avifauna of the State. 



1855. Head, J. F. Some Remarks on the Natural History of the country 



about Fort Ripley, Minnesota. <[ Ninth Ann. Bejp. Smiths. Inat. (for 

 1854), 1855, pp. 291-29.3. 



List of about 60 spp. of birds observed, with brief remarks. 

 1855. Henry, T. C. Notes derived from observations made on the Birds of 

 New Mexico during the years 1853 and 1854. < Proc. Acad. Xaf. Set. 

 Fhilct., vii, 1855, pp. 30f>-317. 



Field-notes of habits ; 170 spp. 



1855. Kennicott, R. Catalogue of Animals observed in Cook County, 

 Illinois. < Trans. Ill State Agric. Soc.for 1853-54, i, 1855, pp. 577- 

 595. > Birds, pp. 580-591. 



List, briefly annotated, of 187 spp., to which are added a few species (22) of 

 Middle and Southern Illinois omitted from H. Pratten's List, IS.'iS, q. v. 



1855. Le Baron, W. Observations upon some of the Birds of Illinois most 

 interesting to the agriculturist. < Trans. III. State Agric. Soc. for 

 1853-54, i, 1855, pp. 559-565. 



"I have thu.s hastily run over those families of land birds which are most 

 interesting to the agriculturist, either for the depredations they commit, or for 

 the benefits they confer . . . ." — (Author.) 



1855. Pratten, H. Catalogue of South Illinois Birds. A contribution to 

 the Natural History of Illinois. < Trans. III. State Agric. Soc. for 

 1853-54, i, 1855, pp. 596-609. 



Nominal list of 184 spp. " The following catalogue of the birds of the State 

 is, by no means, a complete one. With the exception of a few of the w.iter birds, 

 which were shot on the Ohio River, they were all obtained in the two coun- 

 ties of Wayne and Edwards." — (Author's preface.) 



1855. SCLATER, P. L. Note on the Sixteen Species of Texan Birds named 

 by Mr. Giraud of New York, in 1841. <^P.Z.S., xxiii, 1855, pp. 

 65, 66. 

 Identifications and rectifications of nomenclature in cases of nearly all of them. 

 1855. Strang, J. J. Some Remarks on the Natural History of Beaver 

 Islands, Michigan. <^Ninth Ann. Rep. Smiths. Inst, (for 1854), 1855, 

 pp. 282-288. 

 Birds merely mentioned in a paragraph of three lines. 

 1855. WOLEORD, H. L. On the Importation and Protection of useful Birds. 



< Agric. Rep. U. S. Patent Office for 1854, 1855, pp. 71 . 



Not seen. 



