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NEW SPECIES. 
NOT IN MT 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 
1843, 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 will be 
surprised as much as I have myself 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. 
