No. 2.1 HOFFMAN ON THE BIRDS OF NEVADA. 255 



1877. EiDGWAY, Robert. Professional Papers of the Engineer Department, U. S. 



Army, No. 18. Report of the Geological Exploration of tbe Fortieth Parallel, 

 made by order of the Secretary of War according to Acts of Congress of 

 March 2, 1867, and March 3, 1869, under the direction of Brig, and Bvt. Major 

 General A. A. Humphreys, Chief of Engineers, by Clarence King, U. S. Geol- 

 ogist. Washington: Gov't. Printing Office, vol. iv, 1877. > Part III. Orni- 

 thology, pp. 305-643, and pp. 652-669. 



Contains complete description of the birds obtained by the author while attached to the ex- 

 pedition, covering the area from San Francisco, Cal., to the eastward of Salt Lake City, Utah. 

 The area covered by Mr. Ridgway forms a narrow tract of about seventy miles in width, en- 

 tering Nevada from the parallel of 39° at the southwestern limit to that of 42° at the noith- 

 oastern, including most of the northern portion of Nevada. 



1878. CouES, Elliott. Department of the Interior | United States Geological Sur- 



vey of the Territories | F. V. Hayden, U. S. Geologist-in-charge | — | Miscella- 

 neous Publications — No. 11 | — | Birds of the Colorado Valley | A repository 

 of I scientific and popular information | concerning | North American Orni- 

 thology I By Elliott Coues | ^HM)\ tJA^c ;<;£/lz5a?r xaXai ft3pa? ayovda \ — | 

 Part First | Passeres to Laniidce | Bibliographical Appendix \ Seventy Illustra- 

 tions I — I Washington | Government Printing Office | 1870 | 1 vol. 8vo. pp. 

 i-xvi, 1-807. 



In this work "the whole subject of the bibliography of North American ornithology, and 

 of the synonymy of North American birds, has been worked up anew from the very bottom, 

 as a matter of original personal investigation admitting of nothing at second hand. Not only 

 the birds of the Colorado Valley, but a!so all others of North America, are thus exhaustively 

 treated, their synonjony and bibliography being at length placed upon a satisfactory basis." 

 (From Prefatory Note by Dr. Hayden.) The report consists of a systematic treatment of the 

 families, genera and species, through Passeres to Laniidce, represented in the region drained 

 by the Colorado River and its tributaries, including portions of Arizona, New Mexico, Col- 

 orado, Utah, Nevada, and that part of California lying in the Valley of the Colorado proper. 

 This comprises mainly that area between the Rocky Mountains on the east, and the Sierra 

 Nevada on the west, known as the "Great Basin," corresponding with the "Middle Fiiujial 

 Province" of some writers, aa distinguished from the "Western" and "Eastern" Provinces 

 respectively. The work may be regarded as complementary to the "Birds of the Northwest", 

 q. V. 



In connection with the author's own observations in the region treated, the labors of all 

 the other naturalists in the same field are either referred to, or quotations submitted in the 

 furtherance of the subject. This volume ia one of the most important ever published upon 

 the subject, and it ia hoped that the entire remaining work may be completed at an early day. 



1878. Henshaw, H. W. Preliminary Report on the Ornithology of portions of Cali- 

 fornia and Nevada. By H. W. Henshaw, Field Season of 1877. <^ Annual 

 Report Geograph. Surveys West of the 100th Meridian, etc., being Appendix 

 NN of the Report of the Secretary of War, etc.. Vol. II, Part iii, 1878, pp. 

 1607, 1608. 



Notes the occurrence of Turdus ncevius on the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada, and the 

 breeding of Zonotrichia leucophryg. 



1880. EiDGWAY, Robert. A Catalogue of the Birds of North America. <^Proc.U. 



S. Nat. Mus. , iii. Aug. 24-Sept. 4, 188C , pp. 163-246. 



This edition has not been published separately, although a number of extras were stmck 

 off for private use. The catalogue foi-ms the basis of the following one, viz : 



1881. EiDGWAY, Robert. Nomenclature of North American Birds chiefly contained 



in the United States National Museum. By Eobert Ridgway. < Bull. Nat. 

 Mus. No. 21, 1881, p. 94. 



In this catalogue the nomenclature lias been brought fully up to date, supplying the wants 

 of ornithologists so long felt in consequence of the many changes since the publication of the 

 last Smithsonian list in 1859, the numerous accessions to our fauna, etc., etc. In this work 

 226 valid species and races arc enumerated, which have either been first described or added to 

 the North American fauna since 1859, while on the other hand, "no less (hau 42 names of the 

 old catalogue have been relegated to the ranks of synonymy, and 20 more removed as extra- 



