2^0. 2.J HOFFMAN ON THE BIRDS OF NEVADA. 253 



1869. Cooper, J. G. Some recent additions to the Fauna of California. <Proc. Cal. 



Acad. Sci., v, pt. 1, for 1868, 1869, pp. 3-13. 



Reviews list of birds recently added to the fauna, and mentions some foond in the Colorado 

 Valley. 



1870. Cooper, J. G. Geological Survey of California, J. D. Whitney, State Geolo- 



gist. Ornithology, Volume I, Land Birds. Edited by S. F. Baird, from the 

 manuscript and notes of J. G. Cooper. Published by authority of the Legis- 

 lature. 1870. 1 vol. large 8vo. 1 p. 1., pp. xi, 591, ill. 



Account of the land birds of the State. The notes on species observed at Fort Mojaveare 

 of interest as illustrating the northern range of many of the Colorado Valley forms. 



1870. Cooper, J. G. The Fauna of California and its Geographical Distribution. 

 < Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., iv, pt. it, 1870, pp. 61-81. 



This paper was read Sept. 6, 1869 ; on p. 61, notes 21 spp. found in the Colorado Valley from 

 the Great Bend, Lat. 36°, to the mouth of the river, at Lat. 32°. On pp. 74-70 is another list, 

 which might have been greatly increased had the author's residence in the valley been pro- 

 longed. 



1874. Baird, S. F., Brewer, T. M., and Ridgway, R. A History of North American 

 Birds, by S. F. Baird, T. M. Brewer, and R. Ridgway. Land Birds. Vol. I 

 [ — III]. Boston. Little, Brown and Company. 1874. 3 vols. sm. 4to. Vol. 

 I, pp. xxviii, 1-596, vi, ill. and pU. Vol. II, 3 p. 11., pp. 1-590, vi, ill. andpU. 

 Vol. Ill, 3 p. 11., pp. 1-560. 1 1., ill. and pU. 



A valuable history of the K. A. Birds, based upon the great amount of MS. contained in 

 the Smithsonian Institution in the form of correspondence, reports, field notes of collectors, 

 &c. Frequent reference is made to the area under consideration, of species, illustrative of 

 geographical distribution, migration, &c. The volumes relating to the "Water Birds have 

 not yet been published, but a: e now, I learn, in the hands of the printer. 



1874. CotTES, Elliott. Department of the Interior. United States Geological Survey 

 of the Territories, F. V. Hayden, U. S. Geologist-iu-Charge. Miscellaneous 

 Publications— No. 3. Birds of the Northwest : A Hand-book of the Orni- 

 thology of the region drained by the Missouri River and its tributaries. By El- 

 liott Cones, Captain and Assistant Surgeon U. S. Army. Washington : Gov- 

 ernment Printing Office. 1874. 1 vol. 8vo. pp. i-xi., 1-791. 



A weU known and valuable work upon the birds found chiefly in that region extending 

 from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains, and from the State of Kansas to the 

 Korthern Boundary of the United States. The work is additionally valuable on account of 

 the complete synonymatic lists, notes on geographic distribution, and finallj^ the monographic 

 treatises of three families, viz: Laridce, Colymbidce, and Podicipedidce, which are made the sub- 

 jects of special study. 



1874. Hoffman, W. J. [Notice of the breeding habits of Buteo swainsoni and Icicrus 

 iullocU in Nevada.] < N. Am. Birds [Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway], II 

 1874, p. 269, 270. 



[From author's MS. report to the Chief of IJ. S. Geograph. Surveys "West of lOJth Me. 

 ridian.J 



1874. Yarrow, H. C, and Henshaw, H. W., Engineer Department, U. S. Army. Geo- 

 graphical and Geological Explorations and Surveys west of the one hundredth 

 meridian. First Lieut, [now Captain] Geo. M. Wheeler, Corps of Engineers, 

 in charge. Report upon Ornithological Specimens collected in the years 1871, 

 1872, and 1873. Washington : Government Printing Office. 1874. 8vo. pamph. 

 1 p. I., pp. 148. 



Contains four separate articles of which the first two only have special reference to Nevada. 

 The first, "Report upon and list of birds collected by the expedition for explorations west of 

 the one hundredth meridian in 1872 ; " pp. !>-33, refers more particularly to the birds of south 

 western Utah and south eastern Nevada ; the second, a " List of birds collected by Lieut. G. 

 M. "Wheeler's Expedition, 1871," pp. 34-36, consists of a list collected by that expedition be- 

 tween Bull Run Mountain, and Tucson, Arizona, the greatest number being taken in Nevada, 

 and form the basis of the remarks in the present paper. 



