BIBLIOGRAPHY 
In compiling this list the author has had access only to his own 
ooks, and realizes that there are omissions. It is hoped, however, that 
all the important references are listed. For 
cluding every published record from the Kansas City region. 
"1814. Lewis, M. and CrarKr, W.—History of the Expedition under the 
command of Captains Lewis and Clarke, to the sources of the 
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4-5-6. By order of the Government of the United States. In 
two volumes. Philadelphia. 14, 
This edition has not been handled by the writer. There are 
many subsequent editions, several of which are undesirable 
from the standpoint of the naturalist. The most desirable is 
the Harper Edition, edited with notes by Coues. 
few bird notes were recorded while the ees was 
passing through the Kansas City region, an e found 
under dates of June, 1804, and esa, 1806. 
1816. Brackenrmor, H. M.—Journal of a Voyage Up the River Mis- 
souri; Performed in Eighteen Hundred and Eleven. By H 
Brackenridge, Esq. ee Edition. Revised and icatazaed by 
the Author. Baltimor 16 
While this item is of no real value to the working ornitholo- 
first trip through this region. His next visit to the same ter- 
ritory, twenty-four years later, is of more importance to the 
ornithologist. 
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1817. Brapgury, J.—Travels in the Interior of America, in the Years 
1809, fie and 1811. By John Bradbury. Liverpool, 1817. 
This English botanist has recorded some interesting bird 
notes, and a few that are valuable and importan a- 
thentie account is given of the nesting of oe Can 5 
not far below what is now Sibley, Jackson County, Missou 
Notes on the Passenger Pigeon are seeteoers  aiseapkost the 
narrative, 
Thomas Nuttall, who was later to acquire fame in the field 
of ornithology, and who twenty-four years later, in company 
with John ownsend, discovered H arrow in 
this region, was a member of Bradbury’s party. ) 
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