626 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL APPENDIX. l§39 [gO 



1839. [Editorial.] Ornithology of the United States. <C^SiUim. Am. 

 Journ. Sei., xxxvi, 1839, p. 201. 

 J. K. Townsend's proposed work — notice of Part I. 



1839. LiCHTENSTEiN, H. Beitrag zur ornitbologischen Fauna von Califoruien 

 nebst Bemerkungen iiber die Artkenuzeicben der Pelikane und iiber 

 einige Vogel vou den Sandwicb-Inseln. <^ Abhand. KonUjl. Alcad. 

 Wiss. Berlin aus dem Jalire 183H, 1839, pp. 417-451, pll. 1-5. (Gelesen 

 Juni 1837.) 



Vultics californiamis, -p. 4i4,-p].l. Falco (Buteo) /errM£fm«ws, p. 428, sp. n. Strix 

 frov.talis, p. 430, sp. n. Fringilla hudsonia, Forst., p. 432. Pelecanus traehyrynchus, 

 p. 433, pi. 2, p. 440, pi. 3, f. 5. P. mitratus, p. 436, pi. 3, f. 2, sp. n. P. onocrotalns, p. 

 436, pi. 3, f. 1. P. crispus, p. 437, pi. 3, f. 4. P. rvfescens, p. 439, pi. 3, f. 3. P.fuscics, 

 p. 441, pi. 3, f. 6. P. conspicillatus, p. 444, sp. n. Hylomanes momotula, p. 449, pi. 4, 

 sp. n. (Mexico) ; Hcmignathus obscurus, p. 449, pi. 5, f. 1 (Oahu) ; H. lucidus, p. 451, 

 pi. 5, f. 2,3 (Oahn), spp. nn. — Noch eine spatere in der ist's eiscbienene Ausgabe 

 dieses Artikels geben wir, 1844. 



1839. Peabody, W. B. O. Eeports | on the | Fishes, Reptiles and Birds | 

 of I Massachusetts. | — | Published agreeably tu an order of | the 

 Legislature, | by the Commissioners on the Zoological and Botanical 

 I Survey of the State. | — | Boston : | Button & Wentworth, State 

 printers. | — | 1839. 1 vol. 8vo. pp. xii, 426, pll. iv. > A | Report 

 I on the I Ornithology of Massachusetts. | By | William B. O. Pea- 

 body, pp. 255-404. 



Biographical notices, more or less extended, of 285 spp. known or believed to 

 occur in Massachusetts, given in form of a communication to the Governor of 

 Massachusetts, dated and signed in conclusion. Ihe author was one of several 

 persons commissioned to take charge of the State Survey above mentioned, 

 according to resolution of the Legislature of 12th April, 1837. His report, witli 

 the two others, together constitiiting the present volume, was presented to 

 Governor Everett, February 11, 1839, and the volume ordered to be printed by 

 Legislature, resolution of April 9, 1839, in an edition of 1,500 copies. The book 

 has become somewhat scarce. In consequence, perhaps, of difhculty of consul- 

 tation, the ornithological portion has been quoted as if it appertained to Pro- 

 fessor Hitchcock's later report on the Minei alogic.al and Geological Survey of the 

 State, the continu.ation of which was directed by the Legislature at the same 

 time that the Zoological and Botanical Survey was ordered. Hitchcock's origi- 

 nal report was published in 1833, which see. Hitchcock was appointed by act 

 of Legislature of June 5, 1830, to make a geological examination of the Common- 

 wealth of Massachusetts in connection with the general Trigonometrical Survey 

 ordered by .act of March 3, 1830, and by act of February 2, 1831, was directed to 

 cause to be annexed to his report a list of the native miueralogical, botanical, 

 and zoological productions of the Commonwealth, as far as practicable and 

 within the limits of the appropriation. 



1839. TowNSEND, J. K. List of the Birds Inhabiting ihe Region of the 

 Rocky Mountains, the Territory of tl.e Oregon, and the North West 

 Coast of America. <^ Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., viii, 1839, pp. 

 151-158. 



231 spp. — names only. A few names occur which h.id not apparently up to that 

 time been described, some of which have not since been described. 



1839? TowNSEND, J. K. Ornithology of the United States. The descrip- 

 tive part by J. K. Towusend. The drawings from nature by French 

 Artists. 8vo. Philadelphia. J. B. Chevalier. (About 18.39?) 



Not seen — cited from Baird, who says, — " This was apparently only a specimen 

 number." Sec iv/rd, 1849, same author. 



