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NEW SPECIES. 



NOT IN MY SYNOPSIS. 



During my journey to the country around and about the waters of the 

 Upper Missouri and Yellow Stone rivers, in the summer and autumn of 

 1S43, my companions and myself had the good fortune of procuring several 

 new species of birds; and I feel much satisfaction in presenting them to my 

 subscribers, who, I trust, will be gratified to see that my anxiety to please 

 them is not in the least diminished. 



In publishing these new species, I have the gratification of naming some 

 of them after those gentlemen who accompanied me on my late tour; and 

 others, after friends connected with the science of ornithology, publicly or 

 otherwise. 



With the exception of a few of these birds, procured in the bottom lands 

 along the Missouri river, they all were found on the sterile prairies, which 

 form the greater portion of the country visited by us; and generally during 

 our excursions after the buffalo, the elk, or the antelope. 



I shall also give figures of two or three species discovered by others, 

 within the range proposed to be included in my synopsis as appertaining to 

 our Fauna. In the accounts given of these new species, the student wili be 

 surprised as much as I have n^self been, to see how closely allied most of 

 them are to species long since described, not only by me, but even by 

 Alexander Wilson, Nuttall, and Charles Lucien Bonaparte. I 

 have a series of each species now in my possession, which can be seen by 

 any student of ornithology who may desire to examine them. 



