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1856. Cassin, J.— Continued. 



York I Lyceum of Natural History ; of the Natural History | Society 

 of Montreal, etc. etc. | 1853 to 1855. | — | Philadelphia : j J. B. Lip- 

 pincott & Co. I 1856. 1 vol. large 8vo size, 4to by sigs. pp. viii, 

 298, pll. 50. 



Issncd in 10 "parts", ■with coDtinnous pagination, during the years specified; 

 collected in 1 vol. in 1856, with preface, contents, and index, forming the "first 

 series" of a work discontinued at this point. Text technical, descriptive, hio- 

 graphical (fiom field-notes of various correspondents, especially G. A. McCall 

 and A. L. Heermann), and general. 50 spp. described and figured in colors; 

 besides which all the then known North American species of PariTue^ Falco- 

 nidce, StrigidcB, and FisHrostres are system.atically treated in the "General 

 Synopsis ", interpolated at pp. 17-20, 85-120, 175-197, 335-256. New species are :— 

 Falco mgriceps, p. 87 (Dec, 1853) ; Falco polyagrus, pp. 88, 121, pi. 16 ; Buteo insig- 

 natus, pp. 102, 198, pi. 31 (March, 1854). See 1853, and 1853-55, Cassin, J. 



1856. Cassin, J. Notes on North American Birds iu the Collection of the 

 Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, and National Museum, 

 Washington. ■< Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philu., viii, 1856, pp. 39-42. 



Critical and descriptive. 7 spp. Spizella breweri, p. 40 ; Ariser albatm, p. 41, 

 spp. nn. 



1856. Cassin, J. Ornithology of the United States, and British and Russian 

 America. < United States Magazine, iii, 1856, pp. 18-29, 109-114, 

 205-207, 481-484, tigg. 13. 



In consequence of the suspension of the Magazine, the contemplated series of 

 articles was discontinued with the fourth instalment. The matter consists of a 

 general popular, hut strictly scientific, account of Cathartidce and Falconidfe. 



1856. Haymond, R. Birds of South-eastern Indiana. <C Proo. Acad. Nat. 

 Sd. Phila., viii, 18.56, pp. 286-298. 

 Systematic list of 139 bpp., shortly annotated. 

 1856. Henry, J. Registry of Periodical Phenomena. <[ Tenth Aim. Eep. 

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Includes a list of 16 spp. of birds whose movements, etc., should be noted In 

 connection with observation of meteorological phenomena. 



1856. KENNERi.Y,C.B.R. ^f/s:^,fr'| Senate, {^x^,^- | - | Re- 



ports ! of I Explorations and Surveys, | to | ascertain the most prac- 

 ticable and economical route for a railroad | from the | Mississippi 

 River to the Pacific Ocean. | Made under the direction of the Secre- 

 tary of War, in | 1853-4, | according to acts of Congress of March 3, 

 1853, May 31, 1834, and August 5, 1854. | — | Volume IV. | — | Wash- 

 ington : I Beverley Tucker, printer. | 1856. 4to. > Part VI. Re- 

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 Explanations. By C. B. R. Kennerly, M. D., Physician and Natural- 

 ist to the Expedition, pp. 1-17. 



This is simply a preliminary account of the game animals of Lt. Whipple's 

 Koute near the thirty-fifth parallel, with a summary statement of the zoological 

 collections. A note appended states that " the remainder of the Zoological Re- 

 port [of this particular Route] will appear in a subsequent volume ''. It ap- 

 peared in the x. vol. of the series of P. R. E. Reports, entirely superseding the 

 present article, which is scarcely citable for any practical purposes. 



1856. McClintock, [P. L.] Extracts from Captain M'Cliutock's Diary 

 (plate IV). < Nat. Hist. Eev. {Pr. Soc), iii, 1856, pp. 40-42. 



Kept in the Arctic regions during the search for Sir John Franklin. Many 

 allusions to the birds. 



