PARTIAL BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE TRES MARIAS ISLANDS. 



By E. W. NELSON. 



1703. DAMPIER, WILLIAM. A New Voyage round the World, 5th ed., I, pp. 26o-264. 



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



by Allen and Alston. 

 1865. BAIRD, SPENCER F. <Review of American Birds, p. 232. Description of 



GranateUun francescce. 

 I860. ALLEN, HARRISON. Notes on the VespertUwnidtv of Tropical America. <Troc. 



Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1866, p. 285. Description of Rhogeiissa parvula. 

 1867. CASSIN, JOHN. A third study of the Icteridtc. <Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 



1867, p. 48. Description of Icterus graysoni. 

 1867. LAWRENCE, GEORGE N. Descriptions of Six New Species of Birds of the 



Families Hirundinida>, Formicarido', Tyrannidce, and Trochilidw. <Ann. Lye. 



Nat. Hist., N. Y., VIII, pp. 404-405. Description of Amazilia graysoni. 

 1871. GRAYSON, ANDREW JACKSON. On'the Physical Geography and Natural His- 

 tory of the Islands of the Tros Marias and Socorro off the Western Coast of 



Mexico. Edited by Geo. N. Lawrence. <Proc. Boat. 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 by Xantus and 



describes Pyrrhophima graysoni (=Amazilia graysoni) and Sterna fuliginosa 



crissalis (ex Baird MSS.). 

 1871. LAWRENCE, GKORGE N. Descriptions of New Species of Birds from Mexico, 



Central America, and South America, with a note on Rallus longirostris. 



<Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., X, pp. 1-21. Description of Parula insularis 



(=Comp8othlypi8 insularis). 

 1874. BAIRD, SPENCER P. <History of North American Birds, II, pp. 515, 516. 



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. 



1876. WALLACE, ALFRED RUSSELL. Geographical Distribution of Animals, II, pp. 



59-60. Summary of the fauna of the Tres Marias, comprising 52 species of 

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



1877. ALLEN, JOEL ASAPH. <Mon. N. Am. Rodoutia, 347-348. Description of Lepns 



graysoni. 



1877-79. GRAYSON, ANDREW JACKSON. Historia Natural de las Islas de las Tres 

 Marias y Socorro. <La Naturalexa IV, pp. 159, 203, and 252. A Spanish 

 translation, by Sefior Don Aniceto Moreno, of Colonel Grayson's paper 

 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. 



<Bull. Nutt. Ora. Club, III, p. 10. Thryothorus felix lawrendi (=. T. lawrendi). 

 1879-82. ALSTON, EDWARD R. <Biologia Centrali-Americana. Mammalia. 1879- 

 1882. Notes on Vexperuyo parvulus (=Rhogeesa parvula), p. 21, Lepus </ray- 

 soni, p. 177, and a seal, p. 210, on the Tres Marias. 



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