. Illustrations of the birds of California, Texas, Oregon, British and Russian America. : Intended to contain descriptions and figures of all North American birds not given by former American authors, and a general synopsis of North American ornithology. . of resort, though rather unusually shy and vigilant. Our valued friends Capt. Howard Stansbury, of the U. S. TopographicalEngineers, in his able Report of a Sm-vey of the valley of the Great SaltLake of Utah, and Prof. Spencer F. Baird, of the Smithsonian Institution,in a valuable Zoological appendix to that Report, allude to this Duck ascom
. Illustrations of the birds of California, Texas, Oregon, British and Russian America. : Intended to contain descriptions and figures of all North American birds not given by former American authors, and a general synopsis of North American ornithology. . of resort, though rather unusually shy and vigilant. Our valued friends Capt. Howard Stansbury, of the U. S. TopographicalEngineers, in his able Report of a Sm-vey of the valley of the Great SaltLake of Utah, and Prof. Spencer F. Baird, of the Smithsonian Institution,in a valuable Zoological appendix to that Report, allude to this Duck ascommonly met with in Utah, and especially in the vicinity of the Great SaltLake. It was observed frequenting the rivers and small streams. Thecollection brought home by Capt. Stansbury containing many objects of thehighest interest and scientific value, which are described with his usual greataccuracy in Prof. Bairds Appendix, is now in the National Museum atWashington city. The specimens of the present bird were obtained in theriver Jordan, a stream emptying into the Lake, and so named by the settlersin that region, who are principally of the religious denomination ofMormons. It visits South America in the course of its winter migration, and is (82). THE RBD-BKEASTED TEAL. 83 frequently to be met with in the western countries of that portion of thiscontinent. The extensive collection in all departments of Natural Historymade by the party under the command of Lieut. J. M. Gilhss, of the U. , during the performance of several years duty in making geographicalexplorations and astronomical observations in Chili and other countries ofSouth America, by order of government, and which is now a portion of theNational Museum, contains numerous specimens of the bird now before have seen it, in. fact, in all the various collections from western SouthAmerica that have recently come under our notice. Dr. Woodhouse represents this species as very abundant in western Texasand New Mex
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