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1805. Barton, B. S. Letter to M. Lacepede, of Paris, on the Natural His- 

 tory of North America. <^Tilloch'8 Pliilos. Mag., xxu,l80b,Tip.97- 

 103,204-211. 



Only the second instalment of the article relates to birds. It notices the 

 migrations of a few North American species, asserts the torpidity in winter of 

 Swallows, Swifts, and Hummingbirds, and the breeding of Aix sponsa in trees. 



1307. Barton, B. S. A | Discourse | on | some of the principal desiderata | 

 in I Natural History, | and on | the best means of promoting the 

 study I of this | Science, | in the United States. | — | Read before the 

 Philadelphia Linnean Society, | on the 10th of June, 1807. | — | By 

 Benjamin Smith Barton, M. D., | President of the Society ; one of 

 the Vice-Presidents of the | American Philosophical Society; pnd 

 Professor of | Materia Medea, Natural History and Botany, | in the 

 University of Pennsylvania. | — | Philadelphia : | Printed by Den- 

 ham & Town, No. 278, South Second-street. | — | 1807. "8vo" 

 (half-sheets). 3 p. 11., pp. 9-90. 

 A rare tract. Ornithological matter at pp. 20-22, 68, 79, 88-90. 



1807. Clavigero, F. S. The | History | of | Mexico. | Collected from | 

 Spanish and Mexican historians, | from | Manuscripts and ancient 

 paintings of the Indians. | Illustrated by | charts, and other copper 

 j)lates. I To which are added, | critical dissertations | on the | land, 

 the animals, and inhabitants of Mexico. | By Abb6 D. Francesco 

 Saverio Clavigero. | Translated froin the original Italian, | By 

 Charles Cullen, Esq. | The second edition. | In two volumes. | Vol. 

 I [II]. I London : | printed for J. Johnson, St. Paul's Churchyard, 

 I by Joyce Gold, Shoe Lane. | — | 1807. 2 vols. 4to. Vol. I, map, 

 titles, pp. v-xxxii , 2 11. , pp. 1-476, pll. 24. Vol. II, 2 p. 11., pp. 1-463. 

 VoL I, Boot I, Sect XI, Birds of Mexico, in thisedition at pp. 46-56; asnmmary 

 account of sundry kinds, of no special value now, nnless it be for the Mexican 

 and Spanish names under which such as are identifiable are presented. 



1S07. Hbarne, S. Journey to the Northern Ocean, etc. London, 1807. 

 Not seen.— See the earlier eds., 1795 and 1796. 



1807. ViEiLLOT, L. p. Histoire Naturelle | des Oiseaux | de | L'Am^rique 

 Septentrionale, | contenant un grand nombre d'espfeces diScrites ou 

 figur6es | pour la premifere fois. | Par M. L. P. Vieillot, | continna- 

 teur de I'Histoire des Colibris et des Oiseaux-Monohes ; auteur de 

 celle des Jacamars, | des Grimpereaux, des Promerops, des Oiseanx 

 de Paradis et de la plupart des articles d'Ornithologie | du nouveau 

 Diotionalre d'Histoire Naturelle, etc. | Tome premier [second]. | — | 

 A Paris, | chez Desray, Libraire, Rue Hautefeuille, N" 4. | 

 M. DCCC. VII. I De I'lmprimerie de Crapelet. | 2 vols, folio, pll. 

 Vol. I, 2 p. 11., pp. iv, 90, pll. 1-57. Vol. II, 1 p. 1., pp. li, 74, pll. 57 

 6W-124 (In each vol. some numbers of the pll. duplicated). Stated 

 to have been published in 22 livraisons of 6 pll. each. Prfitre pinx. 

 Bouquet sculp. Langlois imp. 



" C'est done cet Ouvrage, fruit d'une longue suite derecherches sur les mcBurs 

 et le genre de vie des Oiseaux de rAiu6rique septentrionale et de Saint-Domin- 

 gae, que je pr6sente an public. II contient I'histolre de pr6s de quatro cents 

 esp^ces, dont cinquante au moins sent nouvelles, et dont environ cent soixante 

 n'ont point 6t6 d6critcs par Catesby, Edwards et Bnffon." (Avertissement.) 

 Plusieures de ces esp^ces tiennent la priority sur oelles d6crites par Wilson 



