PREFACE. 
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14. Fort Kearney, South Pass and Honey Lake Wagon Road, Eastern Division, under W. 
M. F. Magraw. — On this route large collections were make by Dr. J. G. Cooper, surgeon of the 
party, as far as Fort Laramie, in 1857, and on his return eastward. His assistant, Mr. C. 
Drexler, visited Fort Bridger, Utah, in March, 1858, and mainly through the countenance of 
General A. S. Johnston, commander of the United States forces stationed there, was enabled to 
make a very large collection of the birds of that region. His collections were received too late 
for mention in their proper places, but ai*e given in Appendix B. 
Parties fitted out by the State Department: 
15. Survey op the Northwestern Boundary, under Archibald Campbell. — Occasional refer- 
ences will be found to collections received from this party, of which Dr. C. B. Kennerly is 
surgeon and naturalist, made chiefly at Simeahmoo bay, Puget's Sound, near the mouth of 
Fraser's river. 
The following less official collections from the west and south have been used in the prepara- 
tion of the report : 
From the Pacific slope. — The very large private collections of Dr. Suckley, in Washington 
and Oregon Territories, and of Dr. Cooper, in Washington Territory and California, already 
referred to. 
Also, additional collections of great magnitude made along the whole Pacific coast of the 
United States by Lieut. W. P. Trowbridge, while engaged on Coast Survey duty; by Mr. E. 
Samuels, at Petaluma, California, and by Mr. John Xantus de Vesey, at Fort Tejon. 
Likewise collections of greater or less extent made by Dr. John Potts, U. S. A., Mr. A. J. 
Grayson, Dr. John F. Hammond, U. S. A., Richard D. Cutts, Mr. A. Cassidy, Dr. W. F. 
Tolmie, Dr. Vollum, U. S. A., and Dr. W. S. King, U. S. A. 
From the Rocky mountain regions. — The very complete collection of birds of Fort Thoni 
and the adjacent regions, made by Dr. T. C. Henry, U. S. A. ; also, collection from Fort 
Massachusetts, New Mexico, made by Dr. D. W. C. Peters, U. S. A. ; at Cantonment Burgwyn, 
New Mexico, by Dr. W. W. Anderson, U. S. A. ; and by Captain R. B. Marcy, near Cochetope 
Pass. 
From Texas and Mexico. — The large collection of Lieut. D. N. Couch, U. S. A., in Texas 
and northern Mexico; of Captain S. Van Vliet, U. S. A., at Brownsville; of Dr. Swift, U.S.A., 
at Fort Chadb'ourne, Texas, and of Drs. Foard and Crawford, U. S. A. ; also, of Mr. Gustavus 
Wurdemann, of the United States Coast Survey, on the coast of Texas. The further collections 
of this gentleman on the coast of Louisiana, of Florida, and among the Florida Keys, have 
contained several new species, and many species new to the fauna of the United States. 
From Nebraska, Kansas, and elsewhere. — Collections made in Kansas and Nebraska by Dr. 
W. A. Hammond, U. S. A., and Mr. John Xantus de Vesey; by Dr. Hayden, Colonel Alfred 
Vaughan, Indian agent, and Dr. J. Evans. On Red River of the North by Donald Gunn, esq. 
Also large collections made in Minnesota and Illinois by Mr. R. Kennicott, partly under the 
auspices of the Northwestern University of Evanston, Illinois; others made in Wisconsin by 
Dr. Hoy and Mr. Barry; in Ohio by Dr. J. P. Kirtland; and near Chicago by Mr. Thomas E. 
Blackney. Also collections made in Georgia by Professor Joseph Leconte. 
A collection of about 150 species received from Mr. John Gould, of London, contains many 
rare birds from the northwest and Arctic regions, (some of them types of the "Fauna Boreali- 
Americana,") as well as others from Mexico and Guatemala. The latter have proved of great 
service for comparison with closely allied species of the United States, as have also specimens 
