596 OHIO BIRDS. 



Vol. IV, 1838. Totanus bartramius, Anas obsoura, Totanua melanoleiious, 

 Sterna hiruudo, S. minuta, Fuligula ferina, Larus bonapartei, Strix otui, Em- 

 heriza amerieana. 40 species, 35 new, 



1832-34. NuTTALL, T. A Manual of the Ornithology of the United 

 States and of Canada. By Thomas Nuttall, A. M., F. L. S. 

 [Vol. I.] The Land Birds. Cambridge : Hilliard and Brown, 

 booksellers to the University. MDCCCXXXII. [Vol. II.] 

 The Water Birds. Boston : Hilliard, Gray, and Company. 

 MDCCCXXXIV. 



Records the oconrrenoe in Ohio oi [Vol. I] Strix nyotea. Icterus agripen- 

 nis, Musicapa casruUa, Meleagris gallopavo, [Vol. II] Ballus virginianus, Sterna 

 Mrundo. New species, 5. 



1838. Atwater, Caleb. A History of the 8tate of Ohio, natural and 

 civil. By Caleb Atwater, A. M., Member, etc., etc. First 

 edition. Cincinnati, pp. 93-96. 



Mentions by common name, and sometimes very indefinitely, about sev- 

 enty-five species of birds. Notes the Sandhill Crane on the Scioto nearly all 

 the ysar ; Paroquette, as quoted on page 404 ; closes with a highly lauda- 

 tory and histrionic description of the Brown Thrush and his vocal powers. 



1838. KiRTLAND, Jaebd P. Report of Dr. Kirtland, Second Assistant 

 G-eologist. < First Annual Report on the Geological Survey of 

 the State of Ohio. By W. W. Mather, Principal Geologist, and 

 the several assistants. Columbus : Samuel Medary, Printer 

 to the State. 1838, pp. 65-69. 



Presents the plan and economic importance of the Zoological Survey of 

 the State. Names Meleagris gallopavo, Atias domestica Anas canadensis, 

 Anas iernicla, Anas amerieana, Anas obscura, Anas sponsa. Anas discors, Anas 

 creoca, Fuligula vallisnera, Fuligula Jerina, Tetrao cupido, Tetr&o umbellns, 

 Perdix virginiana. New species, 7. 

 1838. Kirtland, J. P. Report on the Zoology of Ohio. By Professor 

 J. P. Kirtland, M. D.< Second Annual Report on the Geolo- 

 gical Survey of the State of Ohio. By W. W. Mather, Princi- 

 pal Geologist, and the several assistants. Columbus : Samuel 

 Medary, Printer to the State, pp. 160-6 and 177-187. 



As it is expected that this report will be reprinted as an appendix to the 

 whole volume no farther comments are necessary than to state that this is 

 the first systematic attempt to enumerate the birds of Ohio. Two hundred 

 and twenty-two (2-i2) (by error in numbering 223) species are named. The 

 list includes all given as Ohioau by Wilson, Bonaparte, Nuttall, and him- 

 self in the preliminary report, and all given by Audubon except Sylvia 

 discolor, S. foruiosa, Cathartea iota. Sterna minuta, and Strix otus. 



The new species are Turdus migratorius, T. mustelinus, T. minor, T. wilsonii, 

 T.polyglotlus, T.felimx, T. rufut, Saxicola sialis, Begulus calendula, B, oristaius, 

 (B. tricolor Syn . ) Parus Ucolor, P. atricapillus, Siita oaroUnensis, S. canadmaia, S. 



