DELAWARE VALLEY OKNITHOLOQICAL CLUB. 6 



Dr. Woodhouse stands by his pony in the middle, Capt. An- 

 drew Potts the quartermaster in front of the tent, with the civil 

 engineers, Isaac Smith and Joseph R. Smith, on his left and 

 Meliew in the foreground, cooks, teamsters, etc. in the rear. 



In 1851 Dr. Woodhouse again under Sitgreaves explored the 

 Zuni river, traveling from San Antonio, Texas, via El Paso to 

 Sante Fe and then west to the Zuni, which was followed to its 

 junction with the Little Colorado, thence across the San Fran- 

 ci.sco Mountain and down the Colorado river to Yuma from 

 which point they traversed southern California, reaching San 

 Francisco in February, 1852. 



Returning via Nicaragua, he proceeded to prepare his report 

 upon the birds and mammals obtained on the several expedi- 

 tions, preliminary descriptions being published in the Proceed- 

 ings of the Academy and the full report appearing in Sitgreaves' 

 Report of the Zuni River Expedition. Hollowell treated of the 

 reptiles obtained by Woodhouse, Baird and Girard the fishes, 

 and Torrey the plants. 



The first expedition was through country inhabited largely 

 by half-breeds and semi-civilized Indians, and presented com- 

 paratively few novelties in the way of birds and mammals. 

 Dr. Woodhouse's journals, however, contain interesting notes 

 on his first sight of such birds as the Swallow-tailed Kite, Caro- 

 lina Parakeet, Ivory-billed Woodpecker and Fork-tailed Fly- 

 catcher, while his accounts of the abundance of Wild Turkeys 

 and Deer, and the hunting of Buffalo testify to the splendid 

 opportunities that were open to the hunter of fifty years ago. 



The Zuni River Expedition was far more arduous, its route 

 lying through the hot, arid deserts of the Southwest, then peo- 

 pled with more or less hostile Indians. The party was several 

 times attack edj and Dr. Woodhouse, while leaning over the 

 camp-fire one morning, received an arrow in the leg, but, for- 

 tunately, no serious consequences ensued. At Zuni he was 

 also bitten by a rattlesnake, which interfered considerably with 

 his collecting, though it afforded opportunity for study of the 

 effects of the poison and its response to treatment. Dangerous 

 and inhospitable as this country was, it possessed unusual in- 

 terest to Dr. Woodhouse, since to the ornithologist it was 



