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Show APPENDIX C.- BIBD8. 827 LIST OF BIRDS INHABITINA AMERICA, WE8T OF THE MISSISSIPPI, NOT DESCRIBED IN AUDUBON'S ORNITHOLOGY.* ABCHIBUTEO FERRUGINEUS, Licit, Abh. Ac. Wiss. Berlin for 1838. California. KOSTHRAMUS SOCIABILIS, Vieill. Nonv. Diet., vol. 18, p. 818. Miami River; Cape Florida. STRIX FRONTALIS, Licht. Abh. Ac. Wiss. Berlin. 1888. California. ACANTHYLIS VAUXII, Towns. Jour. Acad. Nat. Sc, Phila., HI. 1, p. 148. 1839. Columbia River. CHORDEILES BRASILIANUS, ( Gm.)- Lawr. Ann. N. T. Lye. April, 1851. Rio Grande, Texas. ANTROSTOMUS NUTTALLI, And. Biog. Birds, 2d ed. VII. 351, pi. 495. 1847. Fort Union; California. CERYLE AMERICANA, Boie.- Lawr. Ann. N. T. Lye. April, 1851. Texas, Rio Grande. OBNI8MYA COSTJB, Bourcier, Rev. Zool., 1839, p. 294. California. CONIROSTRUM ORNATUM, Lawr. Ann. N. T. Lye, April, 1851, pi. 4. Rio Grande, Texas. PICOLAPTES BRUNNEICAPILLUS, Laf.- Lawr. Ann. N. Y. Lye., April, 1851. Rio Grande, Texas. TROGLODYTES ALBIFRONS, Giraud. Texas Birds. 1841. T. mezicanuSy Sw. Texas. * The list includes a few specimens recently described from the region east of the Mississippi. As already stated, the birds mentioned here will all be described and figured by Mr. Cassin of Philadelphia, in his forthcoming work on the Birds of North America, entitled, " Illustrations of the Birds of California! Texas," & c., in continuation of Audubon. A |