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been published by a number of ornithologists appear many titles 
which are easily overlooked and are not included in ordinary bibli- 
ographies. About 40 such lists have already been found and the 
number of titles included in them is about 6,800. 
Manuscripts.— Manuscripts, like type specimens, are unique 
and highly prized by their owners. As a rule not many orni- 
thological manuscripts are apt to be found in any one place outside 
the archives of a few of the larger museums. The manuscripts 
which are likely to possess the greatest historical interest are diaries, 
personal letters from ornithologists, and copies of unpublished, or 
in a few instances published works. 'The Committee has been suc- 
cessful in locating several interesting manuscripts which may be 
briefly mentioned. 
In the Bancroft Library of the University of California, Berkeley, 
Calif.— 
(a) The unpublished manuscript and plates of L. Belding’s 
Water Birds of California. 
(b) The unpublished manuscript and plates of Col. A. J. 
Grayson’s Birds of Mexico. 
Both of these manuscripts are in an excellent state of 
preservation, are carefully preserved in steel cases, and are 
readily accessible. 
In the possession of Mr. W. O. Emerson, Haywards, Calif.— 
(a) A brief unpublished description of the ‘Quesal’ by 
Charles Lucien Bonaparte. 
(b) Manuscript copies of Bonaparte’s Am. Ornithology, 
vols. II, III and IV, interesting historically because they are 
in Bonaparte’s handwriting. 
(c) Manuscript of Dr. J. G. Cooper’s Report on the Survey 
of Oregon and Washington and the Birds of California 
(the latter incomplete). 
(d) Several diaries of Dr. Cooper, 1858-1860. 
In the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress, Washing- 
ton, D. C.— 
(a) Part of the original diary of Titian Ramsay Peale on 
Long’s Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, 1 vol. May 3 
to Aug. 1, 1819. 
(b) Four volumes of the diary of Peale on the Wilkes Explor- 
ing Expedition, 1839 to 1842. 
