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1856. Cassin, J.— Coutiuued. 



York I Lyceum of Natural History ; of the Natural History | Society 

 of Montreal, etc. etc. | 1853 to 1655. | — | Philadelphia: | J. B. Lip- 

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 298, pll. 50. 



Issued in 10 "parts", with contiuuoas pagination, during the years specified; 

 collected in 1 vol. in 1856, with preface, contents, and index, forming the "first 

 series" of a work discontinued at this point. Text technical, descriptive, bio- 

 graphical (from field-notes of various correspondents, especially G. A. McCall 

 and A. L. Heermann), and general. 50 spp. described and figured in colors; 

 besides which all the then known North American species of Parince, Falco- 

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 Falco nigriceps, p. 87 (Dec, 1853) ; Faleo polyagrus, pp. 88, 121, pi. 16 ; Buteo insig- 

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1856. Cassin, J. Notes on North American Birds iu the Collection of the 

 Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, and National Museum, 

 Washington. <[ Pi'oc. Acad. Xnt. Sci. Phila., viii, 1856, pp. 39-42. 



Critical and descriptive. 7 spp. SpizeUa breweri, p. 40; Anser albatus, p. 41, 

 spp. nn. 



1856. Cassix, J. Ornithology of the United States, and British and Russian 

 America. <^ United States Magazine, iii, 1856, pp. 18-29, 109-114, 

 205-207, 481-484, figg. 13, 



In consequence of the suspension of the Magazine, the contemplated series of 

 articles was discontinued with the fourth instalment. The matter consists of a 

 general popular, but strictly scientific, account of Cathartidce and Falconidce. 



1856. Haymond, R. Birds of South-eastern Indiana. < Proc. Acad. Xat. 

 Sci. Phila., viii, 1856, pp. 286-298. 



Systematic list of 139 spp., shortly annotated. 



1856. Henry, J. Registry of Periodical Phenomena. <^ Tenth Ann. Rep. 

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Includes a list of 16 spp. of birds whose movements, etc., should be noted in 

 connection with observation of meteorological phenomena. 



1856. KE....EB.v,C.B.R.^|^,Sr'| «-«- Pno.w" I " I «- 

 ports ! of I Explorations and Surveys, | to | ascertain the most prac- 

 ticable and economical route for a railroad | from the | Mississippi 

 River to the Pacific Ocean. | Made under the direction of the Secre- 

 tary of War, in | 1853-4, j according to acts of Congress of March 3, 

 1853, May 31, 1854, and Augusts, 1854. | — | Volume IV. | — | Wash- 

 ington : I Beverley Tucker, printer. | 1856. 4to. ]> Part VI. Re- 

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 Explanations. By C. B. R. Keunerly, M. D., Physician and Natural- 

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This is simply a preliminary account of the game animals of Lt. Whipple's 

 Route near the thirty-fifth parallel, with a summary statement of the zoological 

 collections. A note appended states that " the remainder of the Zoological Re- 

 port [of this particular Route] will appear iu a subsei|ueut volume ". It ap- 

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 present article, which is scarcely citable for any practical purposes. 



1856. McClintock, [F. L.] Extracts from Captain M'Clintock's Diary 

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Kept in the Arctic regions during the search for Sir John Franklin. Many 

 allusions to the birds. 



