Widmann — A Preliminary Catalog of the Birds of Missouri. 3 



and in his '' Verzeichniss der Vogel welche auf einer Reise in Nord- 

 America beobachted wurden" in the'^ Journal fuer Ornithologie," 

 for 1858; also in Long's Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in 

 1819 and '20, published from notes of Thomas Say in 1823; and 

 in F. V. Hayden's Report on the Geology and Natural History 

 of the Upper Missouri River based on explorations in 1855, '56 and 

 '57, published in the Transactions of the American Philosophical 

 Society, vol. 12, 1863. 



A few notes on the birds of Missouri are found in J. H. Town- 

 send's Narrative of a Journey across the Rocky Mountains in 

 1839 (vol. 21 of Early Western Travels), and a larger number in 

 Audubon's Missouri River Journals, 1843, in '' Audubon and his 

 Journals," by Maria R. Audubon, 1897. Edward Harris, who 

 accompanied Audubon on his journey to the upper Missouri 

 in 1843 pubHshed a nominal '^List of Birds and Mammalia found 

 in the Missouri River from Fort Leavenworth to Fort Union" 

 in the Fifth Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution, 

 1850 (1851). 



In his " Notes on an Ornithological Reconnoissance," Dr. J. 

 A. Allen writes in the Bull. Mus. Comp. ZooL, vol. 3: p. 6, July 

 1872: '^Our collections at Leavenworth (in May 1871) were 

 principally made in the heavy timber on the East Leavenworth 

 (Mo.) side of the Missouri River opposite Fort Leavenworth. 

 Most of the water-birds were obtained about a lagoon on the 

 Missouri side." In Bull. Nuttall Ornith. Club, vol. 3, p. 148, 

 1878, is a notice by Dr. J. A. Allen of the occurrence of three 

 species of seaducks and a purple gallinule taken near St. Louis by 

 Mr. Julius Hurter in 1875, '76 and '77. In vol. 4, 1879, page 139 - 

 147, of the Nuttall Bulletin there is a list of 148 species observed 

 by Mr. W. E. D. Scott at Warrensburg, Mo., during the spring 

 migration, March 27 to June 15, 1874. In the Ornithologist and 

 Oologist of 1884, Mr. Jul. Hurter of St. Louis enumerates 265 

 species of birds collected by him during fifteen years in the vi- 

 cinity of St. Louis. Mr. Otho C. Poling of Quincy, 111., in his 

 ''Notes on the Fringillidae of western Illinois," in the Auk, vol. 

 7, 1890, speaks of observations made on Missouri soil. 



Several papers treating of Missouri birds have been published 

 by the author of the present list during the last twenty years in 

 the Auk, the Ornithologist and Oologist, the Osprey, and Bird 

 Lore. The Reports on Bird Migration in the Mississippi Valley 

 by W. W. Cooke also contain a large number of notes and dates 

 on Missouri birds, chiefly from St. Louis. The report for the 



