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BIRDS OF NEW MEXICO 
On September 29 he visited the placer gold mines, 30 to 40 miles to the south of 
Santa Fe, returning on October 20. Leaving Santa Fe October 8, he was at Galisteo 
Creek, October 9; Algodones, October 12; Bernalillo, October 13; Albuquerque, 
October 15; Laguna, October 20; Acoma, October 21; Rito, October 23; Albuquerque, 
October 25; Padillas, October 28; Isleta, October 29; Tajique, November 1; Abo, 
November 4; Casa Colorado, November 6; La Joya, November 8; Socorro, Novem¬ 
ber 10; near Socorro, November 12; near San Pedro, November 14; and near San 
Marcial, November 15-December 15; Socorro, December 16; Bernalillo, December 
20; and reached Santa Fe December 23. Leaving Santa Fe December 28, he was at 
Las Vegas, .January 1, 1847; The Ocate, January 4; and Raton Pass, January 14; 
crossing into Colorado, Januar}' 15. For the main report of this trip see William II. 
Emory. . A report of the birds seen from Fort Leavenworth, Missouri, to Santa Fe, 
New Mexico, and return, was published by Lieutenant Abert in the Journ. Cincin¬ 
nati Soc. Nat. Hist., V, pp. 57-59, 1882, and notes on his specimens were published by 
S. F. Baird as: Birds Collected in New Mexico by Lieutenant Abert, in Stansbury’s 
Great Salt Lake, pp. 325-326, 1852. 
1846. William Hensley Emory (1811-1887). 
The year following the expedition of Lieut. J. W. Abert, a company of soldiers 
under command of Col. Stephen Watts Kearny was sent during the summer of 1846 
against the Spanish settlements in New Mexico and California, the expedition being 
accompanied by Lieutenant Emory, who made observations in natural history along 
the route. The party left Bent's Fort on the Arkansas in southern Colorado, 
August 2, 1846; entered New Mexico, August 6; and passed through Raton Pass to 
the headwaters of the Canadian River; went along the eastern foothills and reached 
Las Vegas, August 14; Pecos, August 17; and Santa Fe the next day. They left Santa 
Fe September 2, crossed to the Rio Grande at Algodones, September 3; and went 
down the river to Tome, September 8; returning September 11 to Santa Fe. Leaving 
there September 26, they reached Albuquerque, September 29; Tome, October 1; and 
Socorro, October 5. Leaving the Rio Grande, near Las Palomas, October 15, they 
crossed the summit of the Mimbres Mountains, October 17; were at the Copper Mine, 
October 18; reached the upper waters of the Gila, October 20; followed the Gila down 
stream and passed into Arizona, October 22. No formal report was made on the 
birds of the districts visited, but bird notes are scattered through the report which 
was published as: Notes of a Military Reconnoissance from Fort Leavenworth in 
Missouri, to San Diego in California, Including Parts of the Arkansas, Del Norte, 
and Gila Rivers (30th Cong., First. Sess., Ex. Doc. No. 41, pp. 1-230, 1848). This 
same report also contains: Appendix No. 6. Notes of Lieut. J. W. Abert, pp. 386- 
414, and Report of Lieut. J. W. Abert of His Examination of New Mexico in the 
Years 1846-1847, pp. 417-546. 
1850. George Archibald McCall (1802-1868). 
As inspector of army posts, Colonel McCall left San Antonio, Texas, late in 
1849 and went west to the Rio Grande, from Devil River, following approximately 
the line of the present Southern Pacific Railroad through the Davis Mountains to El 
Paso, which was reached in March, 1850. The Rio Grande was followed up to 
Santa Fe, which was reached in late March or early April. Staying in northern New 
Mexico all summer, he made Santa Fe his base for trips into the neighboring moun¬ 
tains and in September went as far east as Las Vegas. The month of October was 
spent in the trip down the Rio Grande to El Paso. His main report was published 
as: Some Remarks on the Habits, etc., of Birds Met With in Western Texas between 
San Antonio and the Rio Grande, and in New Mexico; With Descriptions of Several 
Species Believed to Have Been Hitherto Undescribed (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila- 
