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1860. COLLINS, W. O. Report of Senate Select Committee, upon Senate 

 Bill No. 12, " For the protection of Birds and Game ". < Fifteenth 

 Ann. Rep. Ohio State Board of Agric., 1860, pp. 381-390. 



Facts in the natural history of the birds, upon which are based recommenda- 

 tions for legislative action. 



1860. COOPER, J. G., and SUCKLEY,G. Senate. Ex ' Doc - | - 



j Reports | of | Explorations and Surveys, | to | ascertain the most 

 practicable and economical route for a railroad | from the | Missis- 

 sippi River to the Pacific Oceo.n. | Made under the direction of the 

 Secretary of War, in | 1853-5, | according to acts of Congress of 

 March 3, 1853, May 31, 1854, and August 5, 1854. | | Volume XII. 

 Book II. | | Washington : | Thomas H. Ford, printer. | 1860. 4to. 

 ]> Part III. Route near the forty-seventh and forty-ninth parallels, 

 explored by I. I. Stevens, Governor of Washington Territory, in 

 1853-'55. Zoological Report. > No. 3. Report upon the Birds col- 

 lected on the Survey. Chapter I. Land Birds, by J. G. Cooper, M. 

 D. Chapter II. Water Birds, by Dr. G. Suckley, U. S. A. pp. 140- 

 291, pll. xi, xvi, xxi, xxiii, xxiv, xxv, xxviii, xxxviii. 



The whole vol. in which thia article appears is oftenest cited as Vol. XII, Part 

 II ; but its proper quotation is Vol. XII, Book II, as per general title-page. The 

 zoology, which occupies most of the vol., is officially Part III of Gov. Stevens's 

 Report, Part I (General, constituting Book I) and Part II (Botanical, constitut- 

 ing a portion of Book II) of which do not relate to zoology. Part III, then, of 

 Book II, of Vol. XII, is the zoological portion of this report, No. 3 being orni- 

 thological. It consists of field-notes by Cooper and Suckley, on the birds, accom- 

 panied by the specific characters and some synonymy of each species, copied 

 from Baird's General Report (Vol. IX). Each author contributes his field- 

 notes over his initials to both chapters ; this singular division of t-he ostensible 

 authorship of the Land and Water Birds having resulted from some personal 

 matters of which I am cognizant, but which need not be here published. Fol- 

 lowing the general account is a compiled " List of Birds heretofore reported as 

 found in the northwest part of America, but of which no specimens have been 

 procured by recent explorers " (pp. 288-291). The species figured are the follow- 

 ing: PL xi, Falconigriceps ; pi. xvi, Buteo cooperi ,- pi. xxi, Corvus carnivorus / pi. 

 xxiii, 0. americanus ; pi. xxiv, C. caurinus ; pi. xxv, Pica hudsonica ; pi. xxviii, f. 1, 

 Jurtco dorsalis, f. 2, Passerculus sandwichensis ; pi. xxxviii, Podiceps occidental-is. 



Copies of this book were reissued under an entirely different title (Natural 

 History of Washington Territory, etc.) ; but they are printed from the same plates, 

 and are substaptially identical. The copies examined, both of the original and 

 of the reissue, date 1860 ; but I think other impressions of the original date 1859. 



1860. EDITORIAL. [Notice of Ornithological Operations in North America. 



Note on Amazilia xantusi ( $ , = Heliopaedica castaneocauda <J), 



and other Trochilidae lately described by G. N. Lawrence.] < Ibis, 



ii, 1860, pp. 309, 310. 

 1860. FOWLER, S. P. Changes produced by Civilization in the Habits of our 



[Massachusetts] common Birds. < Proc. Essex Imt., iii, 1860, pp. 



31-36. 



1860. JACKSON, R. M. S. The | Mountain. | By | R. M. S. Jackson, M. D., 

 [etc.] | [Quotation.] | Philadelphia: | J. B. Lippincott & Co. | 

 1860. 1 vol. 12mo. > Chapter V. The Fauna of the Mountain, 

 pp. 288-427 : Mammals, pp. 289-316 ; Birds, pp. 317-360. 



A work of some curiosity, perhaps never before cited in any ornithological 

 connection. Contains a long and fully annotated list of the Birds of the Alle- 

 gheny Mountains of Pennsylvania. 



