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Cave, 26 miles southwest of Carlsbad and 13 miles north of the Texas line, where 
he explored the cave and surrounding country, including many other caves and 
canyons until leaving Carlsbad again for the east on May 10, via Roswell and 
Portales.} 1 
1889-1890. Robert W. Barrell. 
When living at Cooney in 1889 and at Carlisle in 1890, Barrell sent to the Bio¬ 
logical Survey lists of breeding birds, together with schedules of migration dates 
for the spring and fall of 1889 from Cooney, and for the spring of 1890 from Carlisle. 
1889-1924. Clinton Hart Merriam (1855- ). 
Doctor Merriam, in passing through New Mexico at various times on his way to 
the field in other States, recorded the birds seen at different points, notably: Along 
the Santa Fe Railroad, Raton to Las Vegas, July 24, 1889; Las Vegas Hot Springs, 
July 25, 1889; Puerco Valley, July 26, 1889, and December 20, 1919; along the 
Southern Pacific Railroad west of El Paso, October 25, 1894; along the Santa Fe 
Railroad, west of Laguna, July 1, 1896; Espanola, July 15, 1896; 20 miles south of 
Raton, May 5, 1903; Santa Fe (city), May 6, 1903; along the Santa Fe Railroad 
west of Albuquerque, November 29, 1923; along the Santa Fe Railroad, July 13, 
1924. 
1890. Elmer Philo Blinn (1850-1915). 
In 1890 a list of the breeding birds of Chloride was sent to the Biological Survey 
by Dr. Blinn. 
1890. Henry Kelso Coale (1858-1927). 
During a trip made in 1890, Coale visited Fort Union, March 22, and Fort 
Marcy, March 25. His bird observations were published as part of an article on, 
Ornithological Notes on a Flying Trip Through Kansas, New Mexico, Arizona: 
and Texas (Auk, XI, pp. 215-222, 1894). 
1892. Basil Hicks Dutcher (1871-1922). 
Colonel Dutcher collected for the Biological Survey at Carlsbad, September 
12-24, 1892. 
1892-1894. Albert Kenrick Fisher (1856- ). 
Dr. Fisher, of the Biological Survey, collected at Fort Wingate, July 2-7, 1892, 
and at Silver City, June 27-July 12, 1894. During part of the latter time he visited 
the foothills of the Pinos Altos Mountains, about eight miles north of Silver City. 
1892-1894. John Alden Loring (1871- ). 
Loring, when in the Biological Survey, stopped at Santa Fe, July 9, 1892, and 
collected, July 12-14, at Tres Piedras. In 1893 he made a midwinter trip through 
the central part of the State, spending December 3-9 at Aztec in the extreme 
northwestern corner and December 10-12 near by at La Plata. He went by rail 
to Chama, December 19-29, and thence by rail to the Rio Grande Valley where he 
collected at Espanola, December 30, 1893-January 9, 1894; Lamy, January 11; 
Albuquerque, January 11-19; Bernalillo, January 18; Belen, January 20-21; Socorro, 
January 22-23; San Marcial, January 24; and Las Cruces, January 25. 
1 Bird notes of this trip were published in Animal Life of the Carlsbad Cavern, by Vernon Bailey, 
Williams and Wilkins Co., Baltimore, 1928. 
