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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