Pacific Railroad Surveys

English: Pacific Railroad Surveys — done 1853 to 1855 exploring routes for the First Transcontinental Railroad.

• Surveys include one volume with bird art, 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.

The Surveys

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  James Graham Cooper (in 1865).
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  Fort Nez Perces (1853).

Maps of the Surveys

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  "Map of routes for a Pacific railroad" (1855)

Birds of the Surveys

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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