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14. Fort Kearney, South Pass and Honey Lake Wagon Road, Eastern Division, under W. 

 M. F. Magraw. — On this route large collections were made by Dr. J. G. Cooper, surgeon of the 

 party, as far as Fort Laramie, in 1857, and on his return eastward. His assistant, Mr. C. 

 Drexler, visited Fort Bridger, Utah, in March, 1858, and mainly through the countenance of 

 General A. S. Johnston, commander of the United States forces stationed there, was enabled to 

 make a very large collection of the birds of that region. His collections were received too late 

 for mention in their proper places, but are given in Appendix B. 



Parties fitted out by the State Department : 



15. Survey of the Northwestern Boundary, under Archibald Campbell. — Occasional refer- 

 ences will be found'^.to collections received from this party, of which Dr. C. B. Kennerly is 

 surgeon and naturalist, made chiefly at Simeahmoo bay, Puget's Sound, near the mouth of 

 Eraser's river. 



The following less official collections from the west and south have been used in the prepara- 

 tion of the report. 



From the Pacific slope. — The very large private collections of Dr. Suckley, in "Washington 

 and Oregon Territories, and of Dr. Cooper, in Washington Territory and California, already 

 referred to. 



Also^ additional collections of great magnitude made along the whole Pacific coast of the 

 United States by Lieut. W. P. Trowbridge, while engaged on Coast Survey duty ; by Mr. E. 

 Samuels, at Petaluma, California, and by Mr. John Xantus de Vesey, at Fort Tejon, 



Likewise collections of greater or less extent made by Dr. John Potts, U. S. A., Mr. A. J. 

 Grayson, Dr. John F. "Hammond, U.S. A., Richard D. Cutts, Mr. A. Cassidy, Dr. W. F. 

 Tolmie, Dr. Vollum, U. S. A., and Dr. W. S. King, U. S. A. 



From the Rocky mountain regions. — The very complete collection of birds of Fort Thorn and 

 the adjacent regions, made by Dr. T. C. Henry, U. S. A.; also, collection from Fort Massa- 

 chusetts, New Mexico, made by Dr. D. W. C. Peters, U. S. A.; at Cantonment Burgwyn, New- 

 Mexico, by Dr. W. W. Anderson, U. S. A.; and by Captain R. B. Marcy, near Cochetope pass. 



From Texas and Mexico. — The large collection of Lieut. D. N. Couch, U. S. A., in Texas 

 and northern Mexico ; of Captain S. Van Vliet, U. S. A., at Brownsville ; of Dr. Swift, U. S. A., 

 at Fort Chadbourne, Texas, and of Drs. Foard and Crawford, U. S. A.; also, of Mr. Gustavus 

 Wiirdemann, of the United States Coast Survey, on the coast of Texas. The further collec- 

 tions of this gentleman on the coast of Louisiana, of Florida, and among the Florida Keys, 

 have contained several new species, and many species new to the fauna of the United States. 



From Nebraska, Kansas, and elsewhere. — Collections made in Kansas and Nebraska by Dr, 

 W. A. Hammond, U. S. A., and Mr. John Xantus de Vesey; by Dr. Hayden, Colonel 

 Alfred Vaughan, Indian agent, and Dr. J. Evans. On Red river of the North by Donald 

 Gunn, esq. Also large collections made in Minnesota and Illinois by Mr. R. Kennicott, partly 

 under the auspices of the Northwestern University of Evanston, Illinois ; others made in 

 Wisconsin by Dr. Hoy and Mr. Barry ; in Ohio by Dr. J. P. Kirtland ; and near Chicago 

 by Mr. Thomas E. Blackney. Also collections made in Georgia by Professor Joseph Leconte. 

 A collection of about 150 species received from Mr. John Gould, of London, contains many 

 rare birds from the northwest and Arctic regions, (some of them types of the " Fauna Boreali- 

 Americana,") as well as others from Mexico and Guatemala. The latter have proved of great 



