﻿PARTIAL BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE TRES MARIAS ISLANDS. 



By E. W. Nelson. 



1703. Dampier, William. A New Voyage round tlie World, 5th ed., I, p^j. 26o-264. 

 Notes the presence of sejils about the Tres Marias. These notes are quoted 

 by Allen and Alston. 



1865. Baird, Spencer F. <Revie\v of American Birds, p. 232. Description of 



GranateUm francescce. 



1866. Allen, Harrison. Notes on the FesjKr<i7<oMifto of Tropical America. <Proc. 



Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1866, p. 285. Description of Bliogeessa parvula. 



1867. Cassin, John. A third study of the Icteridje. <Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 



1867, p. 48. Description of Icterus graysoni. 



1867. Lawrence, George N. Descriptions of Six New Species of Birds of the 

 Families Hirundinidw, Formicaridw, Tijrannidie, and Trochilidcu. <^Ann. Lyc. 

 Nat. Hist., N. Y., VIII, pp. 401-405. Description of Amazilia graysoni. 



1871. Grayson, Andrew Jackson. On the Physical Geography and Natural His- 

 tory of the Islands of the Tres Marias and Socorro off the Western Coast of 

 Mexico. Edited by Geo. N. Lawrence. <^Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., XIV, 

 pp. 261-302. In addition to Grayson's notes, Lawrence gives a few remarks 

 on certain birds said to have been taken on the Tres Marias by Xantus and 

 describes Pyrrlioplmna graysoni (=AmaziUa graysoni) and Sterna fnliginosa 

 crissalis (ex Baird MSS.). 



1871. Lawrence, George N. Descriptions of New Species of Birds from Mexico, 

 Central America, and South America, with a note on Eallus longirostris. 

 <Ann. Lyc. Nat. Hist. N. Y., X, pp. 1-21. Description of Panda insularis 

 (=Co nn)soth I yp is ins ularis ) . 



1874. Baird, Spencer F. <History of North American Birds, II, pp. 515, 516. 

 Description of Dryobates scalaris graysoni. 



1874. Lawrence, George N. Birds of Western and Northwestern Mexico. <;Mem. 

 Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. II, pp. 265-319. Contains extracts from Grayson's notes 

 on various species of birds of the Tres Marias. 



1876. Wallace, Alfred Russell. Geographical Distribution of Animals, II, pp. 



59-60. Summary of the fauna of the Tres Marias, comprising 52 species of 

 birds, 3 mammals, and several species of snakes and lizards. 



1877. An^EN, Joel Asaph. <Mon. N. Am. Rodentia, 347-348. Description of Xe/^^s 



graysoni. 



1877-79. Grayson, Andrew Jackson. Historia Natural de las Islas de las Tres 

 Marias y Socorro. <^LaNaturalezaIV, pp. 159, 203, and 252. A Spanish 

 translation, by Seiior Don Aniceto Moreno, of Colonel Grayson's paper 

 originally published in the Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History, 

 New York, X, 1871. 



1878. Ridgway, Robert. Description of a New Wren from the Tres Marias Islands. 



<^Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, III, p. 10. Thryothoriis felix laivrencii (— T. laivrencii). 

 1879-82. Alston, Edward R. <Biologia Centrali-Americana. Mammalia. 1879- 

 1882. Notes on Vesper ngo par vuhis {=Rlwgeesa parvula), p. 21, Lepiis gray- 

 soni, p. 177. and a seal, p. 210, on the Tres Marias. 



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