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1839. TOWNSEND, J. K. Narra ive | of a | Journey across the Rocky Mount- 

 ains, | to | The Columbia River, | and | a visit to the Sandwich 

 Islands, Chili, &c. | With | a Scientific Appendix. | By John K. Town- 

 send, | Member of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadel- 

 phia, j Philadelphia: | Henry Perkins, 134 Chestnut street. I Bos- 

 ton : Perkins & Marvin. | | 1839. 8vo. pp. viii, 352. > Ap- 

 pendix: Catalogue of Birds found in the Territory of the Oregon, 

 pp. 331-352. 



The personal narrative of a journey, performed by the author in 1834 under 

 Captain Wyeth, in company with Thomas Nuttall, which resulted in the addi- 

 tion of some 25 spp. of birds to the fauna of the United States. These were 

 described partly by (he author, partly by Audubon. There is ornithological mat- 

 ter passim ,- but the portion of the Appendix above quoted is the only part of 

 the work that foimally treats of birds. It consists of a nominal list of 208 

 spp., followed by descriptions of 24 "new" species. All of these discoveries, 

 however, had been previously named and described, either by the author himself, 

 in pt ii of voL vii (1837) cf the Philadelphia Academy's Journal, or by Mr. Au- 

 dubon, in vol. iv of the Orn. Biogr., these works being cited in every case. A 

 few others are indicated in the catalogue, but neither named nor described. It 

 is to be noted that the bird named Phalacrocorax " resplendens " by Audubon is 

 here given as P. "splendens" Towns. MS., making in fact a synonym ; and that 

 a curious generic term, Frinca, is applied to the Aphriza. It looks like a misprint 

 for Tringa, but is twice printed, with an asterisk, to indicate novelty. Audubon 

 dedicated no fewer than seven of the species to Mr. Townsend. 



1839. VIGORS, N. A. The | Zoology | of | Captain Beechey's Voyage ; | com- 

 piled from the | collections and notes made by Captain Beechey, | 

 the officers and naturalist of the expedition, | during a voyage to 

 the Pacific and Behring's straits performed in | his majesty's ship 

 Blossom, | under the command of | Captain F. W. Beechey, R. N., 

 F. R. S., &c. &c. | in the years 1825, 26. 27, and 28 | By | . . . . N. A. 

 Vigors, Esq., A. M., F. R. S., &c. ; [and others]. | | Illustrated 

 with up wards of | fifty finely coloured plates by So werby. | | Pub- 

 lished under the authority of the Lords Commissioners of the Ad- 

 miralty. | | London : | Henry G. Bohn, 4, York Street, Covent 

 Garden. | | MDCCCXXXIX. 1 vol. 4to. pp. xii, 1-11, 9*-13, 

 13-180, pll. col'd i-xliv, 1-3. > Ornithology, pp. 13-40, pll. iii-xiv.. 

 " The expedition touched at various points, without making a lengthened stay 

 at any; and the collection consequently consists of a variety of species met with 

 at detached and distant localities, rather than cf an extensive series which mi^ht 

 serve to illustrate the zoology of a particular spot " (p. 13). The specimens also 

 appear to have reached naturalists in poor state of preservation. The matter 

 appears to have been written about 1830, but the appearance of the volume wns de- 

 layed several years by J. E. Gray's dilatoriness in preparing the Mollusca. Text 

 descriptive, synonymatic, and briefly biographical ; it is a subject of lasting regret 

 that indications of locality are not more frequent aud more precise. Of about 100 

 spp. treated, three-fourths are North American, and the principal collections 

 appear to have been made on the coast of California. The collection afforded 

 Mr. Vigors numerous new species (few of which have proven really new) ; many 

 of these were previously described by him in the Zoological Journal, though 

 here marked "n. s." several years subsequently. Those so marked without 

 reference to this journal areas follows: Muscicapa semiatra, Tyrannus cinereus, 

 Orpheus Icucopterua, p. 17; Slalia caeruleocollis (pi. iii), Motacilla leucoptera, Trog- 

 lodytes spilurus (pi. iv, f. 1), p. 18; JSaxiccla oenanthoides. Saltator rufiventris, 

 Fringilla crissalis, Fringilla meritloides, p. 19; P yrrhula inornata, p. 20 ; Garrulus 

 californicus (pi. v), p. 21 ; Pious chrysogenys, Colaptes collaris (pi. ix), p. 24 ; Sitta 

 pygmcea (pi. iv, f. 2), Columba metallica, p. 25; O. monilis (pi. x) , p. 26; Nycticorax 

 crassirostris, p. 27 ; Mergulus cirrocephalus, p. 32. See 1829, VIGORS, N. A. 



