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Title: The natural history of Washington territory, with much relating to Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oregon, and California, between the thirty-sixth and forty-ninth parallels of latitude, being those parts of the final reports on the survey of the Northern Pacific railroad route, containing the climate and physical geography, with full catalogues and descriptions of the plants and animals collected from 1853 to 1857
Year: 1859 (1850s)
Authors: Cooper, J. G. (James Graham), 1830-1902 Suckley, George, 1830-1869 Cooper, William, 1798?-1864 Gibbs, George, 1815-1873 Gray, Asa, 1810-1888 LeConte, John L. (John Lawrence), 1825-1883 United States. War Dept. Reports of explorations and surveys, to ascertain the ... route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : Baillière brothers, London, H. Baillière (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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lower parts silvery white, sides l:>rown ; uppermandible brownish black, pale at the end and yellow on tiie sides at the base ; lower mandible yellow, with the sides dusky ;feet liUuk, greenish yellow on inner side ; iris brown. Hah.—Atlantic States from Nova Scotia southward ; Texas in winter ; fur countries, Paeiiic side of the continent; Washington Territory. In the notes on P. occidentaJis I have noticed all I remarked of this species. On the onlyoccasion when I saw them they were with the others, which they so closely resembled inappearance that at a distance they were scarcely distinguishable. I could see also no diiferencein their cries or habits at that season, and never saw them at any other time or place. Al-though killed late in March, both species were in the immature plumage, as were the manyspecimens of the three species I obtained in the Territory at almost all seasons, except summer,when they all disappear.—C. lASPRR Exp & Surveys W^ParaUel Birds PiaU HJtVUl
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PODJCKIS OrCinENTALlS. Pj(m-fiu^-i \.i(h S: Col Ihilaila. ZOOLOGY. 281 PODICEPS OCCIDENTALIS, Lawrence. Tile W^estcrii Grebe. Podkeps occidenialis, (Laweence,) Baird & Lawkence, Gen. Rep. Birds, p. 894. Sp. Ch.— ^nnie^: Upper part of the head and naps fuliginous black ; back and wing coverts grayish black, the feathersmargined with gray ; primaries light ashy brown, darker at the end and white at base ; secondaries white, marked with ashon the outer webs; in some specimens the middle secondaries are pure white ; space between the bill and the eye gray ;throat, sides of the neck, and entire under plumage silvery white ; sides marked with grayish black ; bill dusky, appearingnearly black in the dried specimens, excejit on the cutting edges and at the end, where it is yellow ; iris, orange red ; tarsi andfeet, blackish olive externally, and internally greenish yellow. Length, 24 to 28 inches; extent, 34.60 to 36 ; wing, from7.50 to 8.50; bill, 3; tarsus, 3. Female smallest. A large

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