34 EXPLORATIONS AND SURVEYS WEST OF 100TH MERIDIAN. 



LIST OF BIBDS COLLECTED BY LIEUT. G. M. WHEELER'S 



EXPEDITION, 1871. 



The following list of birds, collected in 1871 by Mr. Bisclioff and 

 other members of the party, will be found to represent some species 

 whose geographical distribution has been greatly increased in the past 

 two years. There are four species new to the fauna of Nevada ; they are 

 Campylorliynclms brunneicapillus, Phainopepla nitens, Guiraca ccerulea, and 

 Tantalus loculator. The specimens were nearly all secured in Arizona 

 and Nevada, and it is greatly to be regretted that fuller notes cannot 

 be given, the MSS. of Mr. Bischoff having been destroyed by fire. 

 When we take into consideration the extreme barrenness of the.localities 

 visited, and the difficulties under which the collections were made, we 

 cannot help thinking that a great deal has been accomplished ; for, not- 

 withstanding the small number of specimens secured, 88 in all, no less 

 than 64 species, many of them rare, are represented in the collection. 

 What with the ornithological labors of Dr. Coues in Arizona, those of 

 Lieutenant Wheeler in the same Territory, Nevada, and Utah, and of 

 Messrs. Allen and Eidgway in the latter Territory, American orni- 

 thology has certainly received a new impetus and acquired many 

 valuable facts heretofore unknown. 



List of birds collected l)ij Lieutenant Wheeler's expedition in 1871. 



