626 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL APPENDIX. 1839 [eO 



1839. [Editorial.] Ornithology of the United States. <^SiUim. Am. 

 Joum. ScL, xxxvi, 1839, p. 201. 

 J. K. Towneend'a proposed work— notice of Part L 



1839. LiCHTENSTEiN, H, Beitrag zur ornithologischen Fauna von Oaliforuien 

 nebst Bemerkungen iiber die Artkenuzeichen der Pelikane und liber 

 einige Vogel von den Sandwich-lnseln. <^ Ahhand. Konigl, Akad. 

 Wise. B&i'lin aus dem Jahre 1838, 1839, pp. 417-451, pll. 1-5. (Gelesen 

 Juni 1837.) 



Vultus caK/omMrnws, p. 424,pl. 1. Falco (Buteo) ferrugineus, -p. 428, sp.n. Strix 

 frovtalis, p. 430, sp. q. Fringilla hvdsonia, Foret., p. 432. Felecanus trachyrynchus, 

 p. 433, pi. 2, p. 440, pi. 3, f. 5. P. mitratits, p. 436, pi. 3, f. 2, sp. n. P. onocrotalus, p. 

 436, pi. 3, f. 1. P. crispus, p. 437, pi. 3, f. 4. P. ru/escens, p. 439, pi. 3, f. 3. P./uscus, 

 p. 441, pi. 3, f. 6. P. conspicillatug, p. 444, sp. n. Sylomanes momotula, p. 449, pi. 4, 

 sp. n. (Mexico) ; Scmignathus obscurus, p. 449, pi. 5, f. 1 (Oahu) ; H. lueidus, p. 451, 

 pL5, f. 2,3 (Oahn), spp. nn. — Nocli eine epatere in der J.^ erschieneDe Ausgabe 

 dieses Artikels geben wir, 1844. 



1839. Peabody, W. B. O. Reports | on the | Fishes, Reptiles and Birds | 

 of I Massachusetts. | — | Published agreeably to an order of [ the 

 Legislature, | by the Commissioners ou the Zoological and Botanical 

 I Survey of the State. | — | Boston : | Button & Wentworth, State 

 printers. | — | 1839. 1 vol. 8vo. pp. xii,426, pll. iv. > A | Report 

 I on the I Ornithology of Massachusetts. I By ( William B. 0. Pea- 

 body, pp. 255-404. 



Biographical notices, more or less extended, of 265 spp. known or believed to 

 occnr in Massacliu setts, given in form of a communication to the G-overDor uf 

 Massachusetts, d:ited and signed in conclusion. The author was one of several 

 persons commissioned to take charge of the State Survey above mentioned, 

 according to resolution of the Legislature ol 12th April, 1837. His report, with 

 the two others, together constituting the present volume, was presented to 

 G-ovemor Everett, February 11, 1839, and the volume ordered to be printed by 

 Legislature, resolution of April 9, 1839, in an edition of 1,500 copies. The book 

 has become somewhat scarce. In consequence, perhaps, of difficulty of consul- 

 tation, the ornithological portion has been quoted as if it appertained to Pro- 

 fessor Hitchcock's later report on the Mineialogical and Geological Survey of the 

 State, the coatiunation of which was directed by the Legislature at the same 

 time that the Zpological and Botanical Survey was ordered. Hitchcock's origi- 

 nal report was published in 1833, which see. Hitchcock was appointed by act 

 of Legislature of June 5, 1830, to make a geological examination of the Common- 

 'weoltb of Massachusetts in connection with the general Trigonometrical Survey 

 ordered by act of March 3, 1830, and by act of February 3, ItJSl, was directed to 

 cause to be annexed to his report u- list of the native mineralogical, botanical, 

 and zoological productions of the Commonwealth, us far as practicable and 

 within the limits of the appropriation. 



1839. TOWNSEND, J. K. List of the Birds Inhabiting the Region of the 

 Rocky Mountains, the Territory of ti.e Oregon, and the North West 

 Coast of America. < Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila.j viii, 1639, pp. 

 151-158. 



231 spp.— names only. A few names occur which bad not apparently up to that 

 time been debcribed, some of which have not since been described. 



1839? TowNSEND, J. K. Ornithology of the United States. The descrip- 

 tive part by J. K. Townsend. The drawings from nature by French 

 Artists. 8vo. Philadelphia. J. B. Chevalier. (About 1839?) 



Not seen — cited from Baird, who says, — " This was apparently only a specimen 

 number." See ivifrd, 1849, same author. 



