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Maximilian, Prince of Wied's, Travels in the Interior of North America, 1832-1834, part 3 and appendix

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By Prinz von Maximilian Wied
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The author records a winter residence at Fort Clarke and subsequent journeys through the Upper Missouri and eastern waterways, combining day-to-day camp life, weather and hunting hardships with close descriptions of Mandan, Sioux and Manitari ceremonies, dances, social visits, and village architecture. Narratives recount peace negotiations, epidemics reaching trading posts, and travel from Fort Clarke to Leavenworth, down the Ohio into Lake Erie and Niagara, then eastward. An appendix assembles tribal vocabularies and sign language, meteorological and natural-history lists, treaties and Indian traditions, and practical observations from forts and winter villages.

IX. CATALOGUE OF BIRDS OBSERVED IN THE MONTHS OF NOVEMBER, DECEMBER, JANUARY, AND FEBRUARY AT THE MOUTH OF THE WABASH

Winter Residents:

  1. Cathartes Aura septentr.
  2. Aquila leucocephala.
  3. "
  4. " Haliaëtus amer.
  5. Falco borealis.
  6. " uliginosus Bon.
  7. " Sparverius.
  8. Strix asio.
  9. " nebulosa.
  10. Corvus americanus Aud.
  11. Garrulus cristatus.
  12. Psittacus carolinensis.
  13. Picus pileatus.
  14. " auratus.
  15. " carolinus.
  16. " varius.
  17. " villosus.
  18. " pubescens.
  19. " erythrocephalus.
  20. Sitta carolinensis.
  21. Certhia familiaris amer.
  22. Alcedo Alcyon.
  23. Sturnella ludoviciana Bon.
  24. Fringilla cardinalis.
  25. " hyemalis.
  26. Fringilla canadensis.
  27. " pennsylvanica.
  28. " melodia.
  29. " tristis.
  30. Parus bicolor.
  31. " atricapillus.
  32. Muscicapa coronata.
  33. Sialia Wilsoni Sw.
  34. Regulus cristatus.
  35. Troglod. ludovicianus.
  36. " hyemalis.
  37. Columba carolinensis.
  38. Meleagris Gallopavo.
  39. Tetrao umbellus.
  40. " Cupido.
  41. Perdix virginiana.
  42. Ardea herodias.
  43. Anser canadensis.
  44. " bernicla.
  45. Anas Boschas fera.
  46. " clangula amer.
  47. Mergus Merganser.
  48. " serrator.
  49. " cucullatus.
  50. Falco?

In November the following still occurred:

1. Quiscalus ferrugineus (a few). 2. Fulica americana (migrating). 3. Grus canadensis. 4. Podiceps carolin. (migrating). 5. Anas sponsa (in large numbers). 6. Anas crecca, querquedula, discors, and other species. 7. Fringilla erythrophthalma.

In December a few of the following:

Fringilla erythrophthalma.

In the second half of January:

Columba migratoria. (This was due to the mildness of the winter.)

In February, returned:

Beginning:

1. Anas sponsa. 2. Anas rufitorques. 3. Anas crecca. 4. Anas acuta. 5. Icterus phöniceus.

Middle and end:

6. Falcones. 7. Fringilla erythrophthalma. 8. Scolopax. 9. Turdus migratorius. 10. Grus canadensis (flight of cranes). 11. Quiscalus versic. 12. Quiscalus ferrugineus.

In the first part of March the following appeared in the region around Harmony:

1. Anser albifrons. 2. Anser canadensis. 3. Quisc. ferrugineus. 4. Quisc. versicolor. 5. Icterus phoeniceus. 6. Larus? (fourth of March seen on the Wabash). 7. Grus canadensis (on the fifth of March Anser canadensis also appeared). 8. Fringilla purpurea (on the tenth of March). 9. Scolopax. 10. Fringa? 11. Hirundo? (on the fourteenth of March the first flight of swallows occurred).

 

 

Transcriber's Note:

Simple spelling, grammar, and typographical errors were silently corrected.

Anachronistic and non-standard spellings retained as printed.