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through the accurate illustrations and exquisitely written 

 descriptions of Alexander Wilson (in 1808-1813). Bona- 

 parte's continuation of Wilson's work was published in 

 four folio volumes beginning in 1826. 



In 1828 appeared the first of Audubon's magnificent 

 folio illustrations of our birds. These were published in 

 England, with later editions of smaller plates in America. 

 Nuttall 's Manual of the Ornithology of the United States 

 appeared in 1832-1834. 



The second work on American mammals appeared in 

 the second American edition of Guthrie's Geography, 

 published in 1815. The author is supposed to have been 

 George Ord, although his name does not appear. In 1825 

 Harlan published his "Fauna Americana: Descriptions 

 of the Mammiferous Animals inhabiting North Amer- 

 ica." This was largely a compilation from European 

 writers, particularly from Demarest's Mammalogie, and 

 had little value. 



In 1826 Amos Eaton published a small "Zoological 

 Text-book comprising Cuvier's four grand divisions 

 of Animals: also Shaw's improved Linnean genera, 

 arranged according to the classes and orders, of Cuvier 

 and Latreille. Short descriptions of some of the most 

 common species are given for students ' exercises. Pre- 

 pared for Rensselaer school and the popular class-room." 

 "Four hundred and sixty-one genera are described in 

 this text-book. They embrace every known species of 

 the Animal Kingdom." This is a compilation from 

 European sources with a few American species of various 

 groups included. On the other hand, Godman's Natural 

 History, in three volumes (1826-1828), was an illustrated 

 and creditable work. Such was also the case with Sir 

 John Richardson's Fauna Boreali Americana of which 

 the volume on quadrupeds was published in England in 

 1829. The other volumes on birds, fishes and insects 

 appeared between 1827 and 1836. Audubon and Bach- 

 man's beautifully illustrated "Quadrupeds of North 

 America" was issued between 1841 and 1850. 



About 1840 several of the states inaugurated natural 

 history surveys and published catalogues of the local 

 faunas. The reports on the animals of Massachusetts 

 and New York are the most complete zoological mono- 

 graphs published in America up to that time. This is 

 particularly true of DeKay's Natural History of New 



