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the river to Fort Clark, where he spent the winter. His journals contain 

 some notes on birds which are recorded in the list. 



John J. Audubon visited the region in 1843. Leaving St. Louis, April 

 25, he journeyed up the Missouri River by steamboat, reaching Fort Union 

 on June 12. At Fort Union he collected many new birds and made draw- 

 ings of birds and mammals. August 16 he started with his party down the 

 river in a forty-foot barge, "The Union," reaching St. Louis, September 19. 

 A daily journal was kept in which he mentioned seeing many species of 

 birds. These records have been added to the list under each species noted. 

 J. A. Allen, as naturahst for the Northern Pacific Railroad Exploration, 

 worked overland from Fort Rice (June, 1873), on the Missouri, along the 

 Heart River and across the Little Missouri into Montana. He returned in 

 September through the same general region. His report on birds consists 

 of several local lists and an annotated list of 118 species. This list is of 

 exceptional importance because the observations were made before the coun- 

 try was broken up and settled and because this region is perhaps the least 

 well known of any section of the, state. 



Dr. Elliot Coues, as ornithologist of the Hayden Survey, went by boat 

 from Moorehead down the Red River to Pembina in the latter part of May, 

 1873. He collected there for nearly a month, then worked along the inter- 

 national boundary line to the Turtle Mountains and Mouse River, making 

 numerous collections and notes covering 183 species of birds. 



In 1895, from late March until August, a party consisting of Dr. L. B. 

 Bishop, W. H. Hoyt, John Shaler, N. L. Bigelow, and Elmer T. Judd col- 

 lected many specimens of birds in Towner and Rolette counties. 



The type of the Dakota song sparrow was taken at Rock Lake, and the 

 type of Hoyts' horned lark was collected at Cando in Towner County by 

 Dr. Bishop, who described and named both. The notes on species taken here 

 (some 220) were later supplemented by others made by E. S. Bryant, who 

 collected at Dry Lake, Freshwater Lake, and Devils Lake in 1892, 1898, and 

 1906. Since that time Mr. Judd has added some 20 species and in 1917 

 published a list of 255 species. 



During the last of May and the first half of June, 1901, Mr. A. C. Bent 

 visited the Devils-Stump Lake region for data on the life histories of North 

 American diving birds. He was accompanied by the Rev. H. K. Job and 

 Dr. L. B. Bishop. 



Mr. W. L. Stockwell, Superintendent of Public Instruction, issued, April 

 15, 1904, a list of birds that had been observed in the state of North Dakota. 

 This list of 339 species, compiled by C. C. Schmidt, includes all the names 

 of birds sent to him from all observers. It includes many species, such as 

 the sooty tern, willet, Guadalupe wren, and Kentucky and prothonotary 

 warblers, that are geographically almost impossible in the state. 



During the summer of 1913 ]\Irs. Florence Alerriam Bailey visited the 

 Devils- Stump Lake region and studied its bird life, which she has graphic- 

 ally and beautifully described in a series of articles in Condor. 



