Zoological Miscellany . 



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From Val Verde, New Mexico, north to Bent's Fort, Colorado. 



Callipela squamata, Gray. — Scaled Quail. — November 10, 1846. 



Stomachs full of grass seed and green hemiptera. 

 Sitta carolinensis, Gmel. — White-bellied Nuthatch.— November 11 1 



1846. 



Olor americanus, Bp. — Whistling Swan. — November 14, 1846. 



Lanius borealis, Vieill. — Great Northern Shrike, Butcher Bird. — No- 

 vember 14, 1846. 



boLYMBus torquatus, Brunn. — Loon. — November 14, 1846. 



Lophodytes cucullatus, Reich. — Hooded Merganser. — November 14, 

 1846. 



Tinnunculus sparverius, Vieill. — Sparrow Hawk. — November 14, 1846. 

 Meleagris gallopavo americaxa, Coues. — Wild Turkey. — December 

 5, 1846. 



Sialia arctica, Sw. — Rocky Mountain Blue Bird. — December 5, 1846. 

 Stomach full of mistletoe berries. 



Colaptes auratus mexicanus, Ridg. — Red-shafted Flicker.- -Decem- 

 ber 7, 1846. Stomachs filled with ants. 



Callipepla squamata, Gray. — Scaled Quail. — December 7, 1846. 



Corvus corax CARNivoRus,Ridg. — American Raven . — December 20,1846. 



Pica rustica hudsonica, Bd. — Black-billed Magpie. -December 20, 1846. 



Plectrophanes nivalis, Meyer. — Snow Bunting. — December 20, 1846. 

 Colorado — East along Arkansas River. 



Geococcyx californianus, Bd. — Road-runner. — January 10, 1846. 



Haliaetus leucocephalus, Savignjr. — White-headed Eagle. — Arkansas 

 River, January 24. 



Conurus carolinensis, Kuhl. — Carolina Parakeet. — I met flocks of 

 Parakeets at Council Grove, Kansas, on the 24th of February, 

 1847, and again on the 1st of March, 1847. That month there was 

 much snow on the ground, and the Kansas river was blocked with 

 ice. 



Eremophila alpestris, Boie.— Shorelark. — On the 6th of Jan., 1847, I 

 found very large flocks of " Sky-larks" in the Rocky Mountains. 

 The birds were so numerous that I killed 25 at a single discharge of 

 my fowling-piece. Great numbers of half starved ravens were 

 flying around, and they pounced upon the crippled "skylarks" 

 with all the predacious voracity of hawks, and would fight 

 furiously with each other for possession of the crippled birds. 



Pica rustica hudsonica, Baird. — Black-billed Magpie. — Magpies were 

 quite numerous along the road through Nebraska and Colorado, 

 feeding on the dead animals which the army had left scattered 

 along the route. 



—James W. Abert, Colonel U. S. A., Newport, Ky., March, 1882. 



