United States and Mexican Boundary Survey
1848-1855 expedition to set the border between the United States and Mexico
United States and Mexican Boundary Survey (1848-1855), sometimes known as the Emory Survey
Report on the United States and Mexican boundary survey, made under the direction of the secretary of the Interior by William H. Emory. The volume on Birds (1857) was edited by Spencer Fullerton Baird, but the artists were not credited on the individual plates. The plates of birds in this work are very similar to those of the Pacific Railroad Surveys. The zoology material was edited by Spencer Fullerton Baird.
Birds edit
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Elegant Trogon, Trogon elegans -
Blue-crowned Motmot, Momotus momota -
Golden-fronted Woodpecker, Melanerpes aurifrons -
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Ladder-backed and Nuttall's Woodpeckers, Picoides scalaris and Picoides nuttallii -
Lesser Nighthawk, Chordeiles acutipennis -
Green Kingfisher, Chloroceryle americana -
Cassin's kingbird, Tyrannus vociferans -
Couch's Kingbird, Tyrannus couchii, and Empidonax oberholseri ? -
Le Conte's Thrasher, Toxostoma lecontei
Landscapes and people edit
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Brownsville -
San Antonio -
El Paso -
Yuma people -
Tohono O'odham (Papago) people -
Areneros
External links edit
- Smithsonian Institution archive copy at the Wayback Machine--role of Spencer Baird in Mexican Boundary (Emory) Survey and Pacific Railroad Surveys
- en:United States and Mexican Boundary Survey