PARTIAL BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE TRES MARIAS ISLANDS. 



By E. W. Nelson. 



1703. Dampieu, William. A New Voyage rouud the World, 5th uiL, I, ])]>. 2Gb-264. 

 Notes tlio presence of seals about the Tres Marias. These notes arc quoted 

 by Allen aud Alstou. 



180)."). Baird, Sl'ENCER F. <;Review of Americau Birds, p. 232. Description of 

 Oraiiiilt-Uusfraucesva-. 



l.SGO. Allen, Harriso.v. Notes on the r('8^)<r(i7io;iifZ(( of Tropical America. <;Proe. 

 Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1S6G, p. 2N5. Description of Ii'lini/ci'ssa 2>urvi(hi. 



18(57. Cassin, .John. A third study of the lcterid;c. <Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 

 1867, p. 48. Description of Icterus (jraysoni. 



1867. Lawkknce, Georc.e N. Descriptions of Six New Species of Birds of the 

 Families Ilinindinidd', Formica riihr, Ti/rannidte, aud Trochilidiv. <]Ann. Lye. 

 Nat. Hist., N. Y., VIII, pp. 404-405. Description oi Amazilia (iraijsoni. 



1871. Grayson, Andrew Jack.son. On the Physical Geography aud Natural His- 

 tory of the Islands of the Tres Marias and Socorro oft' the Wcstein Coast of 

 Mexico. Edited l)y Geo. N. Lawrence. <^Proc. Host. Soc. Nat. Hist., XIV^, 

 pp. 261-302. In addition to Grayson's notes, Lawrence gives a few remarks 

 on certain birds said to have been taken on the Tres Marias liy Xantus and 

 describes Pyrrhoplui iia ijraysoni {^Amazilia yrayaoni) and SIcriiti I'idiijinosa 

 crtssali8 (ox Baird MSS.). 



1S71. Lawrence, George N. Descriptions of New Species of Birds from Mexico, 

 Central America, and South America, with a note on liallus loiujirostris. 

 <^Auii. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., X, pp. 1-21. Description of Panda inxularis 

 (=Com2»<othlypis inaidaris). 



1874. Bairi), Spencer F. <;History of North American Birils, II, pp. ,515, 5115. 

 Description of Dryobates scalaris graysoni. 



1874. Lawrence, George N. Birds of Western and Northwestern Mexico. <Mem. 

 Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. II, pp. 265-319. Contains extracts from Grayson's notes 

 on various species of birds of the Tres Marias. 



187G. Wallace, Alfred Rilssell. Geographical Distribution of Aninuils, 11, pp. 

 5U-(50. Summary of the fauna of the Tres Marias, comprising 52 species of 

 birds, 3 mammals, and several species of snakes and lizards. 



1877. Allen, .loEL AsAPii. <Mon. N. Am. Eodentia, 347-318. Description of Xc^;h(i 



yraytioni, 

 1877-79. Grayson, Andrew Jackson. Historia Natural de las Ishis do las Tres 

 Marias y Socorro. <^LaNaturalezaIV, pp. 159, 203, and 252. A Spanish 

 tr.auslation, by Scfior Don Auiceto Moreno, of Colonel Grayson's X'-'l't^r 

 originally published in the Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History, 

 New York, X, 1871. 



1878. Ridgway, Robert. Description of a New Wren from the Tres Marias Islands. 



<^BulI. Nutt. Orn. Club, III, p, 10. Thryothorus felix lawrencii (= T. latvrencii). 

 1879-82. Alston, Edward R. <^Biologia Centrali-Amoricana. Mammalia. 1879- 

 1882. Notes on Venperiiyo i>arvtdiis (^Elioyeesa jiarvida), p. 21, Leptw ipay- 

 soni, p. 177, and a seal, )>. 210, ou the Tres Marias. 



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