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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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tiful are easily obtained, frequently several individuals being killed at one discharge.During the cold months they keep in small companies, feeding busily, like the sandpipers, atthe edge of the water, and when disturbed flying to a short distance from the intruder, whenagain alighting, they eagerly recommence a busy search for their fiivorite food.—S. Family EECURVIROSTRIDAE —The Avosets.RBCURVIROSTRA AMERICANA, Gm. American Avoset. RecurviTOStra americam, Gm. Syst. Nat. I, 1788, 693.—Wils. Am. Cm. VII, 1813,126.—Sw. F. Bor. Am. II, 1831, 375.—NcTT. Man. H, 78.—Aud. Orn. Biog. IV, 1838, 168 ; pi. 318.—Ib. Syn 252.—Is. Birds Amer. VI, 1843, 247 ; pi. 353.—Baied & Cassin, Gen. Rep. Birds, 703.RecuTviTosira ocadentttlis, Vigors, Zool. Jour. IV, 1829, 356.—Ib. Zool. Blossom, 1839, 28 ; pi. xii.—Wagier, Isis, 1831,520.—Baird, Zool. Stansbury, Salt Lake, 1852.—Cassln, Illust. I, viii, 1855,232, pi. xl. U S P R R Exp 8: Surveys California I . 1 ; ij s -PlateVn
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