BIIU.IOCRAI'IIV OI' CAI.Il'ORXIA oRXri'I I()L( X^V 11 



1848. Peale,T. R. United vStatcs | IvxploriiiR | I^xpcdition. | During the Years | 

 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842. | Under the Command of | Charles Wilkes, U. 

 S. N. I \'ol. \'III. I — I Mammalia and Ornithology. | By | Titian R. Peale, 

 I one of the naturalists of the expedition. | Member [etc., 2 lines]. [ — | 

 Philadelphia: | Printed by C. Sherman. | 1848. Large 4to, pp. i-xxvi, 17-338. 

 Many birds are listed or briefly mentioned as froiii California, the locality where speci- 

 fied being San Francisco or the Bay of vSan Francisco. 



1850-1857. Bonaparte, C. 1,. Conspectus | Generum Avium. | Auctore | Carolo 

 Luciano Bonaparte. | Tom. I. [et Tom. II.] | Uugduni Batavorum. | apud | 

 E. J. Brill, I Academiae Typographum. | — | 1850. [-1857.] 8vo, ])p. 8 + 1-542 

 [2-M-232]. 



Incidental systematic treatment of species from California. 



1850. Cassin, J. Descriptions of new species of Birds of the Genera Parus, Linn.; 

 Emberiza, Linn.; Carduelis, Briss.; Myiothera, 111.; and Leuconerpes, Sw., 

 specimens of which are in the collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences 

 of Philadelphia. <Proc. Ac. Nat. Sc. Phil. V, October 1850, pp. 103-106. 



Includes the original descriptions of Eniderisa Belli {^=Amphispiza belli) from "Sonoma 

 and San Diego"; Carduelis Lazcreucei {—Aslragalinus lau^reucei) from "Sonoma and San 

 Diego"; and Leuconerpes albolarzurlus {^Xe>iopicus albolarvatus) from "near vSutter's 

 mill". 



1850. Ganibel, \\\ Description of a new species of Mcrgiilus, Ray, from the 

 coast of California. <Journ. Ac. Nat. Sc. Phil., 2nd Ser. II, November 1850, 

 p. 55, pi. VI. 



j][ers;ulus Cassiiiii [—Ptychoraiiiptnis ale u tic us). 



1850. Jones, J. M. Note on the California Quail. <Zoologist VIII, 1850, p. 2852. 



Popiilar account of a personal experience at "^lontiero" ( = Monterey). 



1851. Cassin, J. Sketch of the Birds composing the genera Vireo, Vieillot, and 

 Vireosylva, Bonaparte, with a List of the previously known and descriptions 

 of three new species. <Proc. Ac. Nat. Sc. Phil. V, Februarj- 1851, pp. 149- 

 154. 



Includes the original description of ]'ireo /lultoiii, from ]\Ionterey. 



1851. Cassin, J. Descriptions of birds of the genera Laniarius, Dicrurus, Grau- 

 calus, Manacus and Picus, specimens of which are in the collection of the 

 Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. <Proc. Ac. Nat. Sc. Phil. \', 

 December 1851, pp. 347-349. 



Includes the original description of /Vr 7/ ,v thy)-oideus ( Spliyrapicus l/iyroiiieus) from 

 "California." 



1851. Gurney, J. H. Notes on the Zoology of California. <Zoologist IX, 1851, 

 pp. 3297-3299. 



Includes a page of brief and rather grotesipie remarks on a number of l)irds, named 

 only in the vernacular. 



1852. Cassin, J., and Stephens, H. L. Illustrations | of the | Birds of Califor- 

 nia, Texas I and | British and Russian America. | Intended to Comprise all the 

 Species of North America, ICxcept Mexico, not Figured by | Former American 

 Authors, and to Serve as | a Supplement | to the Octavo Edition of | Audu- 



