342 Trans. Acad. Sci. of St. Louis. 



1823. SAY, THOMAS. Account of an Expedition from Pittsburg to the 

 Rocky Mountains, performed in the years 1819, and '20, by order 

 of the Hon. J. C. Calhoun, Secy, of War; under the command of 

 Major Stephen H. Long of the U. S. Top. Engineers. From the 

 notes of Major Long, Mr. T. Say, and other gentlemen of the ex- 

 ploring party. Compiled by Edwin James, Botanist and Geolo- 

 gist of the Expedition. In two volumes. With an Atlas. Phila- 

 delphia. 1823. 



A valuable reference. No serious student of the ornithology 

 of this region can afford to miss reading this narrative, 

 though the scientific 'matter is buried in foot-notes. The work 

 is rare. 



Thos. Say, with Peale and others of the party, collected 

 material and notes on what is now the site of Kansas City, 

 Missouri, and in the immediate vicinity of this point, on the 

 Kaw River, the scientists had a painful and serious experi- 

 ence with Indians. 



1839. TOWNSEND, J. K. Narrative of a Journey across the Rocky Moun- 

 tains, to the Columbia River, and a Visit to the Sandwich Is- 

 lands, Chili, etc. With a Scientific Appendix. By John K. Town- 

 send. Philadelphia. 1839. 



.Townsend and Nuttall crossed Jackson County, Missouri, on 

 April 28, 1834, over the frontier trail between Independence 

 and Westport. Somewhere between .the two points, probably 

 in the Blue Valley, Nuttall took the type specimen of the 

 Harris's Sparrow, which he named the Mourning Finch, 

 Fringilla querula. Townsend does not mention the incident 

 in his narrative because of the fact that Nuttall had not yet 

 described the bird. 



1839-1841. MAXIMILIAN, PEINZ zu WIED. Reise in das Innere Nord- 

 America in den Jahren 1832 bis 1834 von Maximilian Prinz zu 

 Wied. Coblenz. Two volumes. Vol. 1, 1839. Vol. 2, 1841. 



This work contains much matter relative to the birds of the 

 Missouri Valley, but it is largely omitted from the only Ameri- 

 can edition the writer has had access to. See Maximilian, 

 1904. It is understood that one of the few copies of the 

 original edition in this country is owned in Topeka, Kansas. 



1840. NUTTALL, T. A Manual of the Ornithology of the United States 

 and of Canada. By Thomas Nuttall. Second Edition. Two Vol- 

 umes. Boston. 1840. 



The Harris's Sparrow is here given to science. The type 

 locality is given as "a few miles to the west of Independence 

 in Missouri." 



1840-1844. AUDUBON, J. J. The Birds of America, from drawings made 

 in the United States and their Territories. By John James Audu- 

 bon. New York and Philadelphia. Seven volumes. 1840-1844. 

 Subsequent editions have eight volumes. 



The last volume of this and the subsequent editions contains 

 the birds discovered on the Missouri River trip in 1844. A 

 discovery in this region was the Bell's Vireo, the original 

 .specimen of which was taken near St. Joseph, in the Missouri 

 bottoms. 



