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his well-known Report on the Birds collected during the Rail- 

 road Exploring Expedition so often referred to in these pages. 

 This work is indispensable to any one who takes an interest in 

 the ornithology of the New World, and we have no hesitation in 

 recommending it to our subscribers as one of the most useful and 

 complete treatises upon the birds of any one known country 

 which has ever appeared. The advertisement to the present 

 edition, which we subjoin, sufficiently explains its contents and 

 its objects : — 



"The present work is, in part, a reprint of the ' General Report 

 on North American Birds,' presented to the Department of War, 

 and published in October 1858, as one of the series of ' Reports 

 of Explorations and Surveys of a Railroad Route to the Pacific 

 Ocean/ In this volume, however, will be found many im- 

 portant additions and corrections, including detailed lists of 

 plates, both numerical and systematic, descriptions of newly- 

 discovered species, &c., not in the original edition. 



"The Atlas contains 100 plates, representing 148 new or un- 

 figured species of North American birds. Of these plates about 

 fifty appear for the first time, having been prepared expressly for 

 this work. The remainder form the ornithological illustrations 

 of the Reports of the Pacific Railroad Survey, and of the United 

 States and Mexican Boundary Survey under Major Emory, and 

 are distributed throughout the numerous volumes composing 

 those series. All have, however, been carefully retouched and 

 lettered for this edition, and quite a number redrawn entirely 

 from better and more characteristic specimens. In fact, the 

 plates of the Atlas have been prepared expressly for the present 

 edition with the utmost care and attention. 



" In the volume of text will be found a complete account of 

 the birds of North America, brought down to the present time, 

 including accurate descriptions of all known species; their 

 arrangement in the genera and families recognized by modern 

 zoologists ; their geographical distribution ; and, as far as pos- 



based on the Collections in the Museum of the Smithsonian Institution. By 

 Spencer F. Baird,with the cooperation of JohnCassin and George N. Law- 

 rence. With an Atlas of 100 plates.' 2vols.4to. Philadelphia : Lippincott 

 & Co., 1860. 



