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added to all of them, which were originally lacking, and the plate numbers 

 and references at the top are changed or regngraved. In some cases the 

 plates of the original reports are superior to those in the Atlas while in 

 others the latter are the better impressions. The coloring of the Atlas 

 plates is nearly always better done. Curiously enough the numbers in the 

 upper right hand corner of the original plates of the separate surveys are 

 the numbers of their position in the Atlas and have no reference to their 

 position in the reports. Two of the original plates, that of the Horned 

 Lark and Mountain Bluebird (Report on the 38th.; 39th., and 41st. 

 Parallels; plates XXXII and XXXV) do not appear in the Atlas, their 

 places being taken by new plates of the Florida Grackle and Red-naped 

 Sapsucker respectively. They are however, Dr. Richmond tells me, bound 

 up in Prof. Baird's copy at theU. S. National Museum, in addition to the 

 substituted plates, the Bluebird by the way being uncolored; but this was 

 undoubtedly done for his personal convenience. 



Of the twenty-five plates of the Mexican Boundary Report twenty-four 

 appear in the Atlas somewhat retouched and sometimes with the addition 

 of a landscape background lacking in the original. They are numbered 

 I-XXIV as in the original report. Plate XXV however, is replaced by a 

 new plate (LX1II) consisting of a reduced representation of the Black- 

 bellied Tree Duck which occupied the whole plate in the original, and a 

 figure of the Fulvous Tree Duck in addition. The remaining thirty-seven 

 plates appear for the first time in the Atlas. 



The above facts are not new, except, perhaps, the exact collation of the 

 plates with those of the original reports, and are given in Coues' Bibliog- 

 raphy and doubtless elsewhere, as well as in the preface to the ' Birds of 

 North America ' itself. Recently, however, my attention has been called 

 to some other facts about the work which I do not find mentioned in any 

 bibliography. I have before me a copy of the Atlas, bearing the imprint 

 of D. Appleton & Co., New York, 1860; which shows that Lippincott 

 was not the only publisher who handled the work. This edition of the 

 Atlas seems to be exactly like the Philadelphia imprint, and doubtless the 

 text, which 1 have not seen, is identical. There is, however, another edi- 

 tion which is decidedly different and which bears the imprint; Salem: 

 Naturalist's Book Agency, 1870; with Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & 

 Co., 1860, above it in smaller type. 



The Atlas of this edition is inferior to that of 1860. Many of the plates 

 have been again retouched and some redrawn often in a decidedly crude 

 fashion, while one plate, No. XIV Buteo calurus, is entirely different, the 

 bird facing the other way. In a large number of these plates moreover, 

 the names are lacking, while in the redrawn ones there is no border line 

 and no lettering whatever except the plate number. 



The coloring of the Atlas of 1860 is far better done than the plates of 

 either the original reports or those of the 1870 edition while the coloration 

 of a number of the figures differs materially in all three, the Sandwich Spar- 



