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1857. SCLATER, P. L. On a Collection of Birds made by Signer Matteo 

 Botteri in the vicinity of Orizaba in Soutbern Mexico. <^ P. Z. S. t 

 xxv, 1857, pp. 210-215. 



38 spp., shortly annotated. Neochloe (g. n.) brevipennis, p. 213; Zonotiichia bot- 

 terii, p. 214, spp. nn. 



1857. SCLATER, P. L. On a Collection of Birds received by M. Salle* from 



Soutbern Mexico. < P. Z. &, xxv, 1857, pp. 226-230. 

 29 spp., annotated. Diplopterus excellens, p. 229, sp. n. 



1858. BAIRD, S. F., CASSIN, J., and LAWRENCE, G. N. 3 |^ C s e D J ^ j House 



of Representatives, j ^ D ^ 1 Ct | | Reports | of | Explorations and 



Surveys, | to | ascertain the most practicable and economical route 

 for a railroad | from the | Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. | 

 Made under the direction of tbe Secretary of War, in j, 1853-6, j 

 according to Acts of Congress of March 3, 1853, May 31, 1854, and 

 August 5, 1854. | | Volume IX. I | Washington : | A. O. P. 

 Nicholson, printer. | 1858. 4to. Subtitled as follows : Explorations 

 and Surveys for a railroad route from the Mississippi River to the 

 Pacific Ocean. | War Department. | \ Birds: | by Spencor F. Baird, 

 | Assistant Secretary Smithsonian Institution. | With the co-opera- 

 tion of | John Cassiu and George N. Lawrence. | | Washington, 

 D. C. | 1858. pp. i-lvi, 1-1005. (No illustrations.) 



This work is ' ' Part II " of the " General Report upon the Zoology of the Several 

 Pacific Railroad Routes " (Part I being the corresponding report on the Mam- 

 mals, which constitutes the viii. vol. of the series, and Parts III and IV, on 

 Reptiles and Fishes respectively, being contained in the x. vol. of the series). 

 The preface states : " The present report is a continuation of a systematic 

 account of the vertebrate animals of North America, collected or observed by 

 the different parties organized under the direction of the "War Department for 

 ascertaining the best route for a railroad from the Mississippi river to the Pacific 

 ocean. The collections of these expeditions having been deposited with the 

 Smithsonian Institution by the "War Department, in compliance with an act 

 of Congress, the undersigned was charged by the Secretary of the Institution 

 with the duty of furnishing the series of general reports upon them, as called 

 for by the Department. The account of the mammals having been published in 

 1857, that of the birds is herewith furnished, prepared according to the plan 

 announced in the preface to that volume. As in the volume on the mammals, 

 by the insertion of the comparatively few species not noticed by the expeditions, 

 this report becomes an exposition of the* present state of our knowledge of the 

 birds of North America, north of Mexico. This addition, while rendering the 

 work more valuable to the reader, waa absolutely necessary for the proper 

 understanding of the western launa, the species of which are generally so 

 closely allied to the eastern forms as to require in most; cases more minute and 

 detailed descriptions of the latter than have been published. Certain portions 

 of the report have been prepared by Mr. John Cassin, of Philadelphia, and Mr. 

 George N. Lawrence, of New York, well known as the leading ornithologists of 

 the United States. Mr. Cassin has furnished the entire account of the Raptores, 

 from p. 4 to 64, of the Grail from p. 689 to 753, and of the Alcidae from p. 900 to 

 918, in all about 135 pages. Mr. Lawrence has written the article on the Longi- 

 pennes, Totipalmes, and Colymbidae from page 820 to 900, making 80 pages." The 

 preface continues with recapitulation of the different surveying parties and less 

 official or wholly individual sources whence the collections upon which the 

 report is based were received. 



Contents : Various titles, etc., pp. i-xvi. Table of the Higher Groups, pp. xvii- 

 xxiv. List of Species, pp. xxv-lvi, 738 in number, with geographical distribution. 



