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1856. Lieutenant Bryan. Up the Kansas and Republican to Nebraska, and 
down the Republican and Solomon on the return trip. 
The sources from which Kansas specimens were obtained for elaboration in 
Baird’s report were: Captain Gunnison’s party, Doctor Kreuzfeldt as naturalist ; 
Lieutenant Warren’s party, Dr. F. V. Hayden as naturalist; Lieutenant Bryan’s 
party, W. S. Wood as naturalist; and W. M. F. Magraw’s party, Dr. J. G. Cooper 
as naturalist. Also collections made by Lieut. D. N. Couch at Fort Leaven- 
worth, 1854-55, and by Dr. W. A. Hammond and Mr. John X. de Vesey at Fort 
Riley and on the Republican river. 
The species added to our list by Baird are: Anas boschas, Ardea egretta, 
Ardea virescens, Totanus solitarius, Coceygus americanus, Dryobates villosus, 
Dryobates pubescens medianus, Ceophlceus pileatus, Melanerpes carolinensis, 
Trochilus colubris, Otocoris alpestris pratincola, Agelaius phceniceus, Icterus 
spurius, Scoleocophagus cyanocephalus, Calcareus lapponicus, Ammodramus 
sandwichensis savanna, Ammodramus savannarum passerina, Ammodramus hens- 
lowi, Chondestes grammacus,* Zonotrichia querula, Zonotrichia leucophrys, 
Spizella monticola, Spizella pusilla, Junco hyemalis, Junco hyemalis oregonus, 
Melospiza lincolni, Spiza americana, Progne subis, Stelgidopteryx serripennis, 
Ampelis garrulus, Vireo bellii, Dendroica xstiva, Dendroica coronata, Geothlypis 
formosa, Icteria virens, Setophaga ruticilla, Thryothorus ludovicianus, Sitta 
carolinensis, Parus bicolor, Parus atricapillus septentrionalis, Polioptila ceerulea, 
Turdus ustulatus swainsonii. 
1863. Haypen, F. V. On the Geology and Natural History of the Upper Mis- 
souri. From Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. Vol. XII. 
New series. Philadelphia, 1863. Part III. Zodlogy and Botany. Mammals, 
pp. 138-151. Birds, pp. 151-176. 
Some Kansas references of both mammals and birds. 
[1864—66.] Barrp, S. F. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. 181. Re- 
view of American Birds in the Museum of the Smithsonian Institution. By S. 
F. Baird. Part I. North and Middle America. [Medallion.] Washington: 
Smithsonian Institution. [No date on title page: June, 1864, to June, 1866. Issued 
in sheets and dated by parts as printed.] One vol., 8vo, pp. i-iv, 1-450. 
Treats of the families from the Turdidz to the Laniide of the Smithsonian 
check list then in use. A valuable work, discontinued to allow the author to 
take up the work on his History of the Birds of North America in collaboration 
-with Doctor Brewer and R. Ridgway. It contains a number of references to 
Kansas species. 
1865. Hoy, Dr. P. R. Journal of an Exploration of Western Missouri, in 
1854, under the auspices of the Smithsonian Institution. By P. R. Hoy, M. D. 
From Smithsonian report for 1864, pp. 431-438. 
Contains mention of five species observed in Kansas near the Missouri line: 
mockingbird, Bell’s vireo, wild turkey, whooping crane, and the first positive 
record of the lark bunting, Calamospiza melanocorys, remarkable for being so 
far east of the present range of the species. 
1865. Cours, Dr. Extiorr. Ornithology of a Prairie Journey, and Notes on 
the Birds of Arizona. From Ibis, 1865, second series, vol. I, pp. 157-165. 
Gives a record of about twenty species observed in Kansas in 1864. The ear- 
liest record of Larus franklinii, Phalaropus tricolor, Tringa fuscicollis, Ereunetes 
* Edwin James, in the London edition of Major Long’s report, 1823, intimates that the lark 
finch, Chondestes gyrammacus, was seen along the Missouri river below the mouth of the Ne- 
maha, but the statement is not positive as to Kansas. 
