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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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ead ; primaries brownish ash,some of the inner ones tipped with white ; secondaries w hite, with their basal portions dark ash ; under parts silky white,the neck in front light ash, and the sides and lower part of abdomen brownish ash ; under linings of the wings white ; billdark brown, the base of the lower mandible yellowish, and its tip light horn color; iris yellowish gray ; tarsi and feetexternally dark green, on the inside yellow. Length, 12 inches ; wing, 5 ; bill, f; tarsus, 1^. Eat.—California, headwaters of Missouri and Columbia rivers. I obtained a specimen of the California grebe in the St. Marys valley, (W. T.,) lyingbetween the Rocky and Bitter Root mountains. The bird was badly injured in the head by arifle ball, so as to puzzle me very much while attempting to compare it with the recordeddescriptions of the different species to which I had access. In habits this grebe appearsnearly related to the P. cornutus.—S. U S P, RS Exp 8c Surveys _Califorrua Birds Plale Vllj
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Bowen&CLitli.&Col. PliOada^ PODmirS CWLIFORNICLTS. ZOOLOGY. 283 PODILYMBUS PODICEPS, (Linn.) Luwr. The Plrd-BllI Grebe. CoUnxbuspodkeps, Linn. S. N. 1766, 223. IodkepscaTolinenm, Lath. Ind. Orn. II, 1790, 785.—Bonap. Syn. 1828, No. 367.—Rich. & Svv. F. B. A II, 1831,412 —NCTT. Man. II, 1834, 259.—Aud. Orn. Biog. Ill, 1835, 359: V, 1839, 624.—Ib. Birds Am. VII,1844,324; pi. cccclxxxiii.Podilymbus lineatus, Heeemann, Proc. Acad. N. S. Phil. VII, 1854,179.Podilymbus Podkeps, Baibd & Lawrence, Gen. Rep. Birds, p. 898. Sp. Ch —Adult: Upper plumage very darlc brown; primaries darli asli; secondaries ash on tlie outer webs and white onthe inner; bill pale blue, dusky on the ridge of the upper mandible, both mandibles crossed with a broad black band,including the nostrils; chin and throat marked with a conspicuous black patch nearly two inches in extent; cheelis and sidesof the neck brownish gray; lower part of the neck, upper part of the breast, and the sides, dul

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