342 Trans. Acad. Sci. of St. Louis. 
1823. Say, THomas.—Account of an Expedition from Pittsburg to the 
y Mountains, performed in the years 1819, and ’20, by order 
* 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 sentiones of the ex- 
gist of the Expedition. In two volumes. With an Atlas. Phila- 
delphia. 1823. 
A valuable reference. No rage student of the ornithology 
of this region can affor miss reading this narrative, 
si a the scientific matter is buried in foot-notes. The work 
Say, with Peale and others of the party, ee 
pasiius and notes on what is now the site of Kansas City, 
Missouri, and in the immediate vicinity of this scant: ne n the 
Kaw River, the " veasiendae had a painful and serious experi- 
ence with India 
1839. Townsenp, J. K.—Narrative of a Journey across the Rocky Moun- 
tains, to the Columbia River, and a Visit to the Sandwich Is- 
lands, Chili, ete. WHE a Scientific Appendix. By John K. Town- 
n 839. 
To wnsend and Nuttall crossed Jackson County, Missouri, on 
in the Blue Valley, Nuttall took the type spec 
Harris’s Sparrow, which he named the percents Finch, 
Fringilla querula. Townsend does not mention the incident 
in his narrative because of the fact that Nuttall had not yet 
Gemmsibes. the bird. 
1839-1841. Maxrmirian, Prinz zv Wiep.—Reise in das Innere Nord- 
This work contains much matter relative to the ‘birds ‘ee the 
Missouri Valley, but it is largely — from the only Ameri- 
can edition the writer has had access to. See Maximitis”, 
1904. is understood that one of the few a of the 
original edition in this country is owned in Topeka, 
1840. Nurratt, T—A Manual of the Ornithology of the United — 
and of Canada. By Thomas Nuttall. Second Edition. Two V0 
Harris’s Sparrow is here given to science. The type 
locality is given ‘sn va few miles to the west of Independence 
1840-1844. Aupvzon, 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. 
e 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 
cee of which was taken near St. Joseph, in the Missouri 
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