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1859. BAIRD, S. F. Continued. 



in | 1853-6, | according to acts of Congress of March 3, 1853, May 

 31, 1854, and August 5, 1854. | | Volume X. | - | Washington : | 

 Beverley Tucker, printer. | 1859. 4to. > Eoute near the 38th and 

 39th parallels, explored by Captain J. W. Gunnison, and near the 

 41st parallel, explored by Lieutenant E. G. Beckwith. Zoological 

 Eeport. > No. 2. Report on Birds collected on the Survey. By S. 

 F. Baird. pp. 11-16, pll. xii, xiii, xiv, xv, xvii, xxxii, xxxv. 



The report to which this deferred zoological article pertains is in vol. II of the 

 series. The article is brief and unimportant, consisting of a short description of 

 most of the 25 spp. and list of specimens collected. Pll. xii, xiii, Buteo swain- 

 sonii; pi. xiv, Buteo calurug; pL xv, B. oxypterus ; pi. xvii, Ohordeiles henryi; pi. 

 xxxii, JEremophila cornuta var. ; pi. xxxv, Sialia occidentalis. 



1859. BAIRD, S. F. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. | | Catalogue 

 | of | North American Birds, | chiefly in the Museum of the | Smith- 

 sonian Institution. | By | Spencer F. Baird. | [First octavo edi- 

 tion.] | [Medallion.] | Washington: | Smithsonian Institution. | 

 1859. 8vo. 2 p. 11., pp. 19 + 2. 



Constituting article IV of vol. H of the series of Smiths. Misc. Coll, but chiefly 

 known as a separate publication. It is a reprint, with some changes, from the 

 4to list which formed part of voL IX, Pacific Railroad Reports, and which was 

 published separately in 1858. There are also other separate copies, printed on 

 one side of the paper only, for labelling. Ostensibly 738. spp., but some of the 

 numbers are duplicated ; names only. The supplementary 2 pages are an alpha- 

 betical list of N. A. genera. 



1859. BAIRD, S. F. Notes on a collection of Birds made by Mr. John Xantus, 

 at Cape St. Lucas, Lower California, and now in the Museum of the 

 Smithsonian Institute. < Proc. Acad. Nat. Sd. Phila., xi, 1859, pp. 

 299-306. 



42 spp. Myiarchus pertinax, pp. 301, 303 ; Cardinalis igneus, Pipilo albigula, 

 Ghamcepelia (passerina? var.) pallescens, p. 305, spp. nn. 



1859. BLAKISTON, T. Scraps from the Far West. < Zoologist, xvii, 1859, 

 pp. 6318-6325, 6373-6376. 



Cursory field-notes on birds observed from York Factory, Hudson's Bay, to 

 Fort Carlton on the Saskatchewan. 



1859. BLAND, . List of Birds of Bermuda. ^(Thirteenth) Ann. Rep. Smiths. 

 Inst. (for 1858), 1859, pp. 286-289, 



Nominal list of 114 spp., with 12 'probabilities', and a note adding 35 spp. from 

 "Wedderburn and Hurdis (in JONES'S Nat. in Bermuda, 1859, q. v.). The list in- 

 cludes 4 European spp. 



1859. BRYANT, H. [Notes on some of the Birds observed in East Florida.] 

 <Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vii, 1859, pp. 5-21. 

 Extended field observations of habits ; much description of nesting, eggs, etc. 



1859. BRYANT, H. A List of Birds seen at the Bahamas, from Jan. 20th to 

 May 14th, 1859, with Descriptions of New or Little Known Species. 

 <Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vii, 1859, pp. 102-134. 



Trochilus bahamensis, p. 106 ; Empidonax bahamenfds, p. 109 ; Hirundo cyaneow- 

 rid is, p. Ill, Lanivireo crassirostris, p. 112; Mimus bahamensis, p. 114, spp. nn. ; 

 Sula elegans, n. sp. proband., p. 125. The article is extensively annotated with 

 field observations of habits, especially such as relate to breeding, ob'logical and 

 anatomical descriptions, etc. 



