PARTIAL BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ALASKAN ORNITHOLOGY. 



The subjoiaed list of titles covers nearly everything accessible which refers particularly to the 

 birds of the Territory : 



1811. Pallas (Petrus). Zoographia Rosso-Asiatica, sistens omuium aniiualiuui iu exteuso Imperio Eossico, etc. 

 Petropoli in officina caes. academiae scieutiarum impress, mdcccxi [1811]. Edit, mdcccxsxi [18.31]. 

 2 vols., 4'^, '26 colored jilates of birds. Imiierii Eossici Aves, vol. i, pp. i:97-5C8 ; vol. ii, pp. 1-374. 

 This work, though printed iu 1811, appear.s not to have been issued until 1831. 

 1631. SWAIXSON (William) and Richaudson (John). Fauna Boreali-Americaua; or the northern parts of British 

 America : containiug descriptions of tho objects of natural history collected on the late northern land expe- 

 ditions under command of Captain Sir John Franklin, E. N. Part second, The Birds. By William Swainson, 

 Esq., F.E.S.jF.L.S., honorary [etc., one line], and John Richardson, M. D., F.E. S.,F. L. S., member [etc., 

 three lines]. London: John Murray, Albemarle-Street. mdcccxxxi [1831]. 



Pp. i-lxvi, 1-524, 4°, 73 plates of birds. Forms part second of Richardson (John), Fauna Boreali- 

 Americana, Loudon, 1829-1837, 4 vols., 4^. 

 1839. Vigors (Nicholas Aylward). Ornithology ; by N. A. Vigors, Esq., A. M., F. R. S., &c. 



In Richardson (John) and others, The zoology of Captain Beechej's voyage » » » • performed in 



his majesty's ship Blossom » » « » pp_ 13_42, London, mdcccxxxix [1839], 4°, 12 colored 



plates of birds. 



1842. Blaschke (Eduard). Topograjihia medica portus Novi-Archangelsoensis, aedis principalis colouiarum Rossi- 



carum in Septentrionali America, edita ab Eduardo Blaschke, medicinae doctors [etc., two lines, followed by 



quotation two lines]. Accedunt tabulae tres geographicae in lap. delineatae. Petropoli. TypisK.Wienhoberi 



et Filii. 1842. 



Printed cover, 2 prel. 11., pp. 1-82, 2 11., tables and maps. 



Pp. 22-24 treat of birds, 51 species being enumerated. In tho preface the author acknowledges his in- 

 debtedness to Dr. Brandt for annotations on birds, and in the text he says agaiu : " The number of wild 

 birds, especially marine birds, is very great, and I will enumerate them according to the cLaasificatiou 

 of the distinguished Acadcmici.an Brandt." 

 1847. Brandt (Johann Friedrich). Fuligulam (Lampronettam) Fischeri, novam avium Eossicarnm speciem prae- 

 missis observationibus ad fuligularuni generis sectionum et subgenerum quorundam characteres et aflSnitates 

 spcctantibus descripsit. 



In Imperial Academy of Scieuces of St. Petersburg, Memoirs, tjth series, vol. viii (nat. sc. vol. vi), pp. 



1-19, St. Petersburg, 1849, 4°, 1 plate. First appeared, in separate form, in 1847. 

 Title from Catalogue des livres publics par I'Acad^niie imp^riale des sciences, ii. Publications enlangues 

 ftrangferes, p. 41, St.-P<5tersbourg, 1877, 8°. 

 [ ? ]. Brandt (Johann Friedrich). Icones avium Rossicarum, tabula vii, inedita. 



The text to these plates was never published, but some impressions were distributed to ornithologists. 

 Plates i-vii represented forty-eight species of birds from Alaska, fo which Dr. Otto FInsch has fur- 

 nished a systematic index iu the Abhaudluugen der Wisseuschaft-Verein zu Bremen, 1873, p. 19. 

 185C. Cassin (John). Illustrations of tho birds of California, Texas, Oregon, British and Russian America. In- 

 tended to contain descriptions and figures of all North American Birds not given by former American authors, 

 and a general synopsis of North American ornithology. By John Cassiu, member [etc., five lines]. 1853 to 

 1855. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co. 1856. 

 Pp. i-viii, 1-298, 4°, 50 plates of birds. 

 1858. KiTTLiTZ (F. H. von). Denkwiirdigkeiten einer Eeise nacli dem russischen Amerika. nnch Mikronesien nnd 

 durch Kamtschatka von F. II. V. ICittlitz. Erster [-Zweiter] Band. Gotha. Verlag von Justus Perthes. 1858. 

 2 vols., 8°. 



Some additional observations appear in the Journal fiir Ornithologie, vol. vi, pp. 387-390, Cassel, 1858, 

 8° ; and a notice or review of the work in vol. vii of the same journal, pp. 45-49, Cassel, 1859, 8-". 



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