lOl] BIBLIOGRAPHICAL APPENDIX. 1863-1864 667 



1863. WALKER, D. Natural-History Notes made during a passage from Liv- 



erpool to Vancouver Island (Dec. 1862 to June, 1863). <P.Z.&, 

 xxxi, 1863, pp. 378-380. 



Cursory allusions to various birds. 



1864. ALLEN, J. A. Catalogue of the Birds found at Springfield, Mass., with 



Notes on their Migrations, Habits, &c. ; together with a List of 

 those Birds found in the State not yet observed at Springfield. 



< Proc. Essex Inst., iv, art. iv, 1864, pp. 48-98. 



195 spp. at Springfield ; 296 in Massachusetts, of which 131 breed, 28 are resi- 

 dent, 67 winter visitors, 75 migrants, 106 summer visitors, 35 stragglers. 



1864. BRYANT, H. Description of two Birds from the Bahama Islands, hith- 

 erto undescribed. < Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. , ix, 1864, pp. 279, 280. 

 Pitangus bahamensis, p. 279 ; Saurothera bahamensis, p. 280. 



1864. HITCHCOCK, C. H. A Catalogue of the Birds of Maine. < Proc. Port- 

 land Soc. Nat. Hist., i, pt. i, 1864, pp. 66 . 



Not seen. 



1864. HOUGH, F. B. Results | of | Meteorological Observations, | made under 

 the direction of the | United States Patent Office and the Smithsonian 

 Institution, | from the | year 1854 to 1859, inclusive, | being a report 

 of the | Commissioner of Patents | made at the first session of ihe 

 thirty-sixth Congress. | | Vol. H. Part I. | | Washington. | 

 Government Printing Office. | 1864. 4to. > Observations upon the 

 Periodical Phenomena in Plants and Animals, from 1851 to 1859, 

 with tables of the dates of opening and closing of lakes, rivers, har- 

 bours, etc. Arranged by Franklin B. Hough, M. D. pp. 1-232. 



Includes, pp. 183-200, dates of appearance of 19 spp. of N. Amer. birds during 

 the period stated, from observations made at numerous points in the United 

 States ; being the most extended and elaborate set of statistics of this particular 

 kind ever made in this country. 



1864. LORD, J. K. List of Birds collected and presented by the British North 

 American Boundary Commission to the Royal Artillery Institution. 



< Proc. Roy. ArVy. Inst, 1864, pp. 110-126. 



87 spp., shortly annotated, with localities of the specimens. "The paper is of 

 gome value in determining the geographical distribution of birds in North-western 

 North America." Zool Rec.for 1864, p. 55. 



1864. SAMUELS, E. A. Ornithology of Massachusetts List of species. 



< Eleventh Ann. Rep. Sec'y Mass. Board of Agric. for 1863, 1864, App., 

 pp. xviii-xxix. 



267 spp., annotated. Reprinted, repaged, retitled, and issued separately, as 

 follows: 



A | Descriptive Catalogue | of the | Birds of Massachusetts. | | 

 By E. A. Samuels. | | Boston : | Wright & Potter, Printers, 4 

 Spring Lane. | 1864. 8vo. pamphl. pp. 14 -f 1. 



No descriptive matter. Many of the species here given do not reappear in his 

 later work. The additional page gives brief directions for collecting. 



1864. SCLATER, P. L. List of a Collection of Birds procured by Mr. George 

 H. White in the vicinity of the City of Mexico. < P. Z. S., xxxii, 

 1864, pp. 172-179. 

 156 spp., with little annotation ; several new to Mexico ; no spp. nn. 



