PARTIAL BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ALASKAN ORNITHOLOGY. 



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

 birds of the Territory : 



1811. Pallas (Pbtrus). Zoographia Eosso-Asiatica, sistens omnium animalium in extenso Imperio Eossico, etc. 

 Petropoli in offloina caes. academiae scientiarum impress, mdooexi [1811]. Edit, mdccoxxxi [1831], 

 2 vols., 4°, 26 colored plates of birds. Imperii Eossici Aves, vol. i, pp. 297-568 ; vol. ii, pp. 1-374. 

 This work, though printed in 1811, appears not to have been issued until 1831. 

 1831. SwAursoN (William) and Eichakdson (John). Fauna Boreali-Amerioaua; or the northern parts of British 

 America : containing descriptions of the 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 Eichardson, 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 Eichardson (John), Fauna Boreali- 

 Americana, London, 1829-1837, 4 vols., 4>^. 

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



In Eichardson (John) and oikers, The zoology of Captain Beeohey's voyage » * » • performed in 



his majesty's ship Blossom » * » * pp, 13-42^ London, mdcccxxxix [1839], 4°, 12 colored 



plates of birds. 



1842. Blaschke (Eduard). Topographia medica portus Novi-Archangelscensis, sedis principalis coloniarum Eossi- 



carum in Septentriouali America, edita ab Eduardo Blascbke, medicinae doctore [etc., two lines, followed by 



quotation two lines]. Aocedunt tabulae tres geographicae in lap. delineatae. Petropoli. Typis K.Wienhoberi 



et Filii. 1842. 



Printed cover, 2 prel. 11., pp. 1-89, 2 11., tables and maps. 



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

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

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

 of the distinguished Academician Brandt." 

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

 missis observationibus ad fulignlarum generis sectionum et subgenerum quorundam characteres et aflinitatea 

 spectantibus descripsit. 



In Imperial Academy of Sciences of St. Petersburg, Memoirs, 6th 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 l'Acad<5mie impgriale des sciences, ii, Publications en langues 

 6trang&res, p. 41, St.-P(Ster8bourg, 1877, 8°. 

 [ ? J. Brandt (JoHANsr Friedrich). Icones avium Eossicarum, 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, to which Dr. Otto Finsch has fur- 

 nished a systematic index in the Abhandluugen der Wissenschaft-Verein zu Bremen, 1873, p. 19. 

 1856. Cassin (John). Illustrations of the birds of California, Texas, Oregon, British and Eussian 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 Cassin, 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 nach dem russischen Amerika, nach Mikronesien und 

 durch Kamtschatka von F. H. V. Kittlitz. 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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