Pacific Railroad Surveys
Includes one volume with bird art, to be included here: United States Department of the Interior, Reports of Exploration and Surveys,... for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean...Volume X... Report(s) on Birds Collected on the Survey, Washington: 1859. Contained more than thirty hand-colored lithographs of birds and scenery. The plates of birds in this work are very similar to those of the United States and Mexican Boundary Survey. The zoology material was edited by Spencer Fullerton Baird.
Birds [edit]
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Swainson's Hawk Buteo swainsoni
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Aplomado Falcon Falco femoralis
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Red-shouldered Hawk, California race, Buteo lineatus elegans
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Red-tailed Black Hawk, race of Red-tailed Hawk Buteo jamaicensis
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Juvenile Swainson's Hawk, Buteo swainsoni
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Common Nighthawk Chordeiles minor
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Mountain Bluebird Sialia currucoides
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Costa's Hummingbird Calypte costae
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Common Raven Corvus corax
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White-necked Raven Corvus cryptoleucus
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Song Sparrow (subspecies) Melospiza melodia
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Abert's Towhee Pipilo aberti
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Hepatic Tanager Piranga hepatica
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Sandhill Crane (Called Little Crane on the plate) Grus canadensis
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Juvenile Red-shouldered Hawk Buteo lineatus elegans
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California (Western?) Grebe
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A Grebe
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Cassin's Finch and Song Sparrow (subspecies) Carpodacus cassinii and Melospiza melodia
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Mexican Crested Flycatcher (?)
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Brandt's Cormorant Phalacrocorax penicillatus
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Gila Woodpecker Centurus uropygialis
