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BIBLIOGRAPHICAL APPENDIX. 1809-1814 601 



1809. Williams, S. The | Natural and Civil | History | of | Vermont. | — | 

 By Samuel Williama, LL. D. | Member of the Meteorological Society 

 in Germany, of the Philosophical Society In Philadelphia, and of 

 the I Academy of Arts and Sciences in Massachusetts. | — | In two 

 volumes. | : : : : : : | Volume I [II]. | : : ; : : | The second edition, 

 corrected and | much enlarged. | — | Burlington, Vt. | Printed by 

 Samuel Mills. ] Sold at his Bookstore in Burlington, by Mills and 

 White, I Middlebury, Isaiah Thomas, Jun. Worcester, Thomas | and 

 Andrews, Boston, Thomas and Whipple and | S. Sawyer and Co. 



Newburyport. | | 1809. 2 vols. 12mo size, but only 4 11. to a 



Big. Vol. I, map, pp. 1-514, 1 1. Vol. II, pp. 1-487 + 1 p. 



Orig. ed., 1194, q. v. Vol. I, Chap. VI, pp. 98-159, Birds, pp. 134-141). A cursory 

 account, in wliicli tlie birds are treated by lists in several categories, as '* birds 

 of passage", " singing birds ", "water fowl", .^Dd those "wliich do not foil under 

 either of the iibove descriptions " (!). There are also miscjllaneous accounts of 

 several species, as the Snow Bird [Junco hyemaUs]^ "Wild Goose, Passenger 

 Pigeon, and ospecially sundry l^inds of Swallows — direct and circumstantial evi- 

 dence being ofiEercd of the subaqueous torpidity of Swallows, and of the hiberna- 

 tion of the Chimney "Swallow" [Ckcetura pelagiea]- in hollow trees. "From 

 these accounts," s.iys the author, referring to what he has Jnst narrated, "I am 

 led to beheve that the house swallow [by which he means the Ghcetura] gene- 

 rally resides during the winter, in the hollow of trees ; and that the ground 

 swallows [Gotyle riparia], find security in the mud, at the bottom of lakes, 

 rivers, and ponds" (p. 14.'i). 



1812. Kalm, p. Travels into North America ; | containing | its Natural His- 

 tory, and a circumstantial account of its | plantations and agricul- 

 ture in general, | . . . . < Piukerton's Voyages, vol. xiii, pp. 374-700. 

 4to. London, 1812. 



This is from the 2d London ed., Forster's translation, 2 vols. 8vo, 1772. — See 

 above for various earlier eds., 1753-61, 1754-64, 1770-71, 1772. 



1814. Lewis, M., and Clarke, W. History | of | The Expedition | under the 

 command of | Captains Lewis and Clark, | to | the sources of the 

 Missouri, | thence | across the Eocky Mountains | and down the ; 

 River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean. | Performed during the years 

 1804-5-6. I By order of the | Government of the United States, j 

 Prepared for the press | by Paul Allen, Esquire. | In two Volumes, i 

 Vol. I [II]. I Philadelphia : | Published by Bradford and Inskeep ; 

 *nd I Abm. H. Inskeep, Newyork. | J. Maxwell, Printer. | 1814. 2 

 vols. 8vo. Vol. I, pp. i-xxviii, 1-470, maps. Vol. II, pp. i-ix, 1-522, 

 maps. > Vol. II, Chap. VII, " A general description of the beasts, 

 birds, and plants, &c. found by the party in this expedition," pp. 

 148-201. 



This is the editio princeps of the authentic narrative See especially CouES, Bull. 



U. S. Geol. and Oeogr. Surv. Terr., idser., No. 6, Feb. 8, 1876, pp. 417-444, giving an 

 account of the boolis of this series, and a commentary on the zoology they con- 

 tain. There are sundry accounts of birds, passim, in these volumes ; and a 

 formal notice of the birds at the place above marked. None of the species are 

 given under technical names ; but here we have the first accounts of various spe- 

 cies, subsequently, in 1815, named by G-. Ord, in Guthrie's Geography. See be- 

 yond for various later editions and versions of this work, under 1814, 1815, 1816-18, 

 1817, and 1842-75. 



1814. Lewis, M.,and Clarke, W. Travels | to the | Source of the Missouri 

 Eiver | and across the | American Continent | to the | Pacific Ocean. 



