82 THE OSPREY. 



" Gassin and Stevois, 1852. Cassin, 1853. 



[1] Cyanocorax luxuosus (Lesson). 1. Cyanocorax luxuosus (Lesson). 



[2] Melanerpes formicivorus 2. Melanerpe-j formicivorus 



(Swainson). (Swains). 



[3] Chamsea fasciata (Gambel). 3. Lophophanes atricristatus 



(Cassin). 



[4] Lophophanes atricristatus 4. Cyrtonyx Massena (Lesson). 



(Cassin). 



[5] Cyrtonyx Massena (Lesson). 5. Larus Heermanni (Cassin). 



"The present copy bears in pencil, in Cassin's handwriting, this note: 

 'Supplement number. ' ' ' 



Illustrations | of the | Birds | of | California, Texas, Oregon, British and | Russian 

 America. | Intended 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 Cassin, | Member of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Phila- 

 delphia; of the American Philosophical | Society; of the Horticultural Society of Penn- 

 sylvania; of the National Institute; | of the South Carolina Natural History Society; of 

 the New York | Lyceum of Natural History; of the Natural History | Society of Montreal, 

 etc., etc. I 1853 to 1855. | — | Philadelphia: | J. B. Lippincott & Co. | 1856. [1 vol. large 

 Svo size, 4to by sigs. viii, 298 p, 50 pi]. 



This has been described by Coues in his "List of Faunal Publications 

 relative to North American Ornithology" (1878). It was "issued in 10 

 'parts,' with continuous pagination, during the years specified; collected in 1 

 vol. in 1856, with preface, contents, and index, forming the 'first series' of a 

 work discontinued at this point. Text technical, descriptive, biographical 

 (from field-notes of various correspondents, especially G. A. McCall and A. L. 

 Heermann), and general. 50 spp. described and figured in colors; besides 

 which all the then known North American species of Parince, [ Vidturid<JB,'] Fal- 

 conid^e, Strigidce, and Fissirostres are systematically treated in the 'General 

 Synopsis', interpolated at pp. 17-20, [56-62], 85-120, 175-197, 235-256. New 

 species are: — Falco nigriceps, p. 87 (Dec, 1853); Falco polyagrus, pp. 88, 

 121, pi. 16; Buteo insignatus, pp. 102, 198, pi. 31 (March, 1854)". 



Ornithology of the United States and British and Russian America. 

 In United States Magazine, 1856-1857, viz: iii, 18-29; iii, 109-114; iii, 205-207; iii, 

 481-484; iv, 10-14. 



This, like the first venture of Mr. Cassin, was soon abandoned, the Turkey 

 Buzzards and Falconids alone having been treated of. Coues did not mention 



