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Pike. Illustrated by maps and charts. Philadelphia: Published by C. & A. 
Conrad & Co., No. 30 Chestnut street; Somervell & Conrad, Petersburg; Bon- 
sal, Conrad & Co., Norfolk, and Fielding Lucas, jr., Baltimore. John Binns, 
printer, 1810. One vol., 8vo. Standard edition, 4to, London, 1811. French 
edition, 2 vols., 8vo, Paris, 1812. 
Pike entered Kansas in 1806. No ornithological records of his trip were made, 
except that his hunters brought in turkeys taken in different parts of the state. 
This is the first published mention I could find of Meleagris gallopavo for Kansas. 
1814. Lewis, M., anp CLarKE,W. History of the Expedition under command of 
Captains Lewis and Clarke to the Sources of the Missouri, thence across the Rocky 
mountains and down the river Columbia to the Pacitic ocean. Performed dur- 
ing the years 1804-5-6. By order of the government cf the United States. Pre- 
pared for the press by Paul Allen, Esquire. In two volumes. Vol. I [II.] 
Philadelphia: Published by Bradford and Inskeep: and Abm. H. Inskeep, New 
York. J. Maxwell, printer. 1814. Two vols., 8vo. Vol. I, pp. i-xxviii, 1-470. 
Maps. Vol. II, pp. i-ix, 1-522. Maps. From vol. II, chapter 7, ‘‘ A general de- 
scription of the beasts, birds, plants, etc., found by the party on this expedition,”’ 
pp. 148-201. 
Doctor Coues says that this is the first edition of the authentic narrative. <A 
quarto edition in one volume appeared in London in 1814, and a three-volume 
edition in 1815. A Dutch edition in three 8vo volumes appeared in Dordrecht in 
1816, and a Dublin edition in two volumes in 1817. 
The party touched Kansas only on the voyage up the Missouri river. The 
wild turkey and whippoorwill are mentioned as found in Kansas. Antrostomus 
vociferus first recorded. Goslings are mentioned as occurring on the Missouri 
river near the point where St. Joseph is now located. Probably the young of the 
Canada goose. 
1823. Say, THomas. Account of an Expedition from Pittsburg to the Rocky 
Mountains, performed in the years 1819 and ’20, by order of the Hon. J. C. Cal- 
houn, secretary of war: under the command of Maj. Stephen H. Long. From 
the notes of Major Long, Mr. T. Say, and other gentlemen of the exploring party. 
Compiled by Edwin James, botanist and geologist for the expedition. In two 
volumes, with an atlas. Vol. I. [II]. Philadelphia: H. C. Carey and I. Lea, 
Chestnut street, 1823. 2 vols., 8vo. Vol. I, 2 p. ii, pp. 1-503. Vol. II, 3 p. ii, 
pp. 1-442, i—xeviili. 
Going westward the main party ascended the Missouri river. A detachment 
under T. Say ascended the Kansas river as far as the mouth of the Blue and then 
proceeded in a northeastern direction to join the main expedition on the Missouri. 
On the return trip a party accompanied by Mr. Say descended the entire course 
of the Arkansas river in this state. 
Notes and descriptions of new species by Thomas Say are scattered through- 
out the work in the form of foot-notes. <A list of the birds seen during the ex- 
pedition, but without localities, is given, pp. 370-375 of volume I. In the text 
occur the first notices of the following species as belonging to Kansas: 
Corvus corax sinuatus (‘‘Warreruza creek’’), Molothrus ater, Halixetus leu- 
cocephalus, Speotyto cunicularia hypogea, Tympanuchus americanus, Colinus 
virginianus, Ceryle aleyon, and Corvus americanus. Dolichonyx oryzivorus is 
also given as seen in great numbers on the Arkansas river August 11. This is 
probably an error. The bobolink is a very rare summer resident in northern 
Kansas and the date is too early for the fall migrants. The bird seen was the 
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