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Finding Aids to Personal Papers and Special Collections in the Smithsonian Institution Archives
Record Unit 7120
Bent, Arthur Cleveland, 1866-1954
Arthur Cleveland Bent Papers, circa 1910-1954
Collection Overview
General Information About This Collection | |
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Repository: | Smithsonian Institution Archives, Washington, D.C. Contact us at osiaref@si.edu. |
Creator: | Bent, Arthur Cleveland, 1866-1954 |
Title: | Arthur Cleveland Bent Papers |
Dates: | circa 1910-1954 |
Quantity: | 10.38 cu. ft. (5 record storage boxes) (5 document boxes) (8 5x8 boxes) |
Collection: | Record Unit 7120 |
Language of Materials: | English |
Summary: | This collection includes notes, correspondence, information, and photographs accumulated by Bent while writing the "Life Histories." Bent corresponded with hundreds, perhaps thousands, of ornithologists while accumulating information for his life histories. Many of his correspondents sent information on many different species, therefore the correspondence or notes of any individual are likely to be spread throughout the collection, making name control cumbersome and impractical. However, Bent was scrupulous about crediting his contributors. The researcher is urged to consult the Introduction to each volume (in which major contributors are listed) as well as the index at the back of each volume. The index, however, contains only references to individuals quoted in the text, whereas the papers contain many contributions not quoted and therefore not indexed. |
Historical Note
Arthur Cleveland Bent (1866-1954) began his multi-volume Life Histories of North American Birds in 1910 and spent the remaining years of his life attempting to complete the project. A prominent businessman and citizen of Taunton, Massachusetts, Bent had been an amateur ornithologist since his childhood. In 1910 he offered to undertake, in collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution and at his own expense, the completion of the Life Histories of North American Birds begun in the 1890s by Charles Emil Bendire (1836-1897). Between 1910 and his death Bent completed 20 volumes, one of which was published posthumously, and had accumulated notes for three other volumes, which were published in 1968 under the editorship of Oliver L. Austin, Jr.
The "Life Histories" were published as a series of "Bulletins" of the United States National Museum as follows:
107. Life Histories of North American Diving Birds, August 1, 1919.
113. Life Histories of North American Gulls and Terns, August 27, 1921.
121. Life Histories of North American Petrels and Pelicans and Their Allies, October 19, 1922.
126. Life Histories of North American Wild Fowl (part), May 25, 1923.
130. Life Histories of North American Wild Fowl (part), June 27, 1925.
135. Life Histories of North American Marsh Birds, March 11, 1927.
142. Life Histories of North American Shore Birds (pt. 1), December 31, 1927.
146. Life Histories of North American Shore Birds (pt. 2), March 24, 1929.
162. Life Histories of North American Gallinaceous Birds, May 25, 1932.
167. Life Histories of North American Birds of Prey (pt. 1), May 3, 1937.
170. Life Histories of North American Birds of Prey (pt. 2), August 8, 1938.
174. Life Histories of North American Woodpeckers, May 23, 1939.
176. Life Histories of North American Cuckoos, Goatsuckers, Hummingbirds, and Their Allies, July 20, 1940.
179. Life Histories of North American Flycatchers, Larks, Swallows, and Their Allies, May 8, 1942.
191. Life Histories of North American Jays, Crows, and Titmice, January 27, 1947.
195. Life Histories of North American Nuthatches, Wrens, Thrashers, and Their Allies, July 7, 1948.
196. Life Histories of North American Thrushes, Kinglets, and Their Allies, June 28, 1949.
197. Life Histories of North American Wagtails, Shrikes, Vireos, and Their Allies, June 21, 1950.
203. Life Histories of North American Wood Warblers, June 15, 1953.
211. Life Histories of North American Blackbirds, Orioles, Tanagers, and Allies, February 27, 1958.
237. Life Histories of North American Cardinals, Grosbeaks, Buntings, Towhees, Finches, Sparrows, and Allies (in 3 volumes), 1968.
Bent regarded the "Life Histories" as collaborative works, and he solicited information, data, notes, and photographs from hundreds of professional and amateur ornithologists throughout North America.
Introduction
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Descriptive Entry
This collection includes notes, correspondence, information, and photographs accumulated by Bent while writing the "Life Histories." Bent corresponded with hundreds, perhaps thousands, of ornithologists while accumulating information for his life histories. Many of his correspondents sent information on many different species, therefore the correspondence or notes of any individual are likely to be spread throughout the collection, making name control cumbersome and impractical. However, Bent was scrupulous about crediting his contributors. The researcher is urged to consult the Introduction to each volume (in which major contributors are listed) as well as the index at the back of each volume. The index, however, contains only references to individuals quoted in the text, whereas the papers contain many contributions not quoted and therefore not indexed.
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Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7120, Arthur Cleveland Bent Papers
Container List
Series 1
GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE AND NOTES.This material is arranged by "Bulletin" number and by species, within each Bulletin. The material consists of correspondence, notes, and some photographs Bent accumulated while writing his Life Histories of North American Birds. Most of the correspondence is incoming, with almost no outgoing correspondence included. Bent often cut letters and/or notes received into segments, filing the various segments under the name of the species discussed. Also included are segments of field notes, presumably sent to Bent by individual collectors, as well as some pre-1910 material Bent pulled from the papers of Charles Emil Bendire. The photographs included in the series were left as placed by Bent. No effort has been made to interfile them into Series 2 or 4.
Box 1
Bulletin 107
1. Western Grebe
2. Holboell's Grebe
3. Horned Grebe
4. American Eared Grebe
5. Mexican Grebe
6. Pied-Billed Grebe
7. Loon
8. Yellow-Billed Loon
9. Black-Throated Loon
10. Pacific Loon
11. Red-Throated Loon
12. Tufted Puffin
13. Puffin
14. Horned Puffin
15. Rhinoceros Auklet
16. Cassin's Auklet
17. Paroquet Auklet
18. Crested Auklet
19. Whiskered Auklet
20. Least Auklet
21. Ancient Murrelet
22. Marbled Murrelet
23. Kittlitz's Murrelet
24. Xantus's Murrelet
25. Craveri's Murrelet
26. Black Guillemot
27. Mandt's Guillemot
28. Pigeon Guillemot
29. Murre
30. Brunnich's Murre
31. Razor-Billed Auk
32. Great Auk
33. Dovekie
Bulletin 113, see box 5.
Bulletin 121
1. Family Diomedeidae - General
2. Shearwaters and Petrels - General
3. Black-Footed Albatross
4. Short-Tailed Albatross
5. Laysan Albatross
6. Yellow-Nosed Albatross
7. Audubon Sooty Albatross
8. Giant Fulmar
9. Pacific Fulmar
10. Rodgers Fulmar
11. Slender-Billed Fulmar
12. Cory Shearwater
13. Greater Shearwater
14. Manx Shearwater
15. Pink-Footed Shearwater
16. Audubon Shearwater
17. Atlantic Allied Shearwater
18. Black-Vented Shearwater
19. Townsend Shearwater
20. Sooty Shearwater
21. Pale-Footed Shearwater
22. Slender-Billed Shearwater
23. Wedge-Tailed Shearwater
24. New Zealand Shearwater
25. Black-Tailed Shearwater
26. Black-Capped Petrel
27. Peale Petrel
28. Fisher's Petrel
29. Bulwer Petrel
30. Pintado Petrel. Includes photograph of group of petrels in flight, from a mounted group in the Brooklyn Museum.
31. Least Petrel
32. Stormy Petrel
33. Hornby Petrel
34. Forked-Tail Petrel
35. Kaeding Petrel
36. Leach Petrel
37. Guadalupe Petrel
38. Hawaiian Petrel
39. Black Petrel
40. Ashy Petrel
41. Socorro Petrel
42. Wilson Petrel
43. White-Bellied Petrel
44. North Atlantic White-Faced Petrel
45. Yellowed-Billed Tropic Bird
46. Red-Tailed Tropic Bird
47. Red-Billed Tropic Bird
48. Blue-Faced Booby
49. Blue-Footed Booby
50. Booby
51. Brewster Booby. Includes photo of the nest of the Brewster Booby, taken by Alfred W. Anthony, San Benedicto, California
52. Red-Footed Booby
53. Gannet
54. Water Turkey
55. Cormorant
56. Double-Crested Cormorant. Includes Photograph
57. Mexican Cormorant
58. Brandt Cormorant
59. Pelagic Cormorant
1. Red-Faced Cormorant
2. American White Pelican
3. Brown Pelican
4. California Brown Pelican
5. Man-O'-War-Bird
Bulletin 126
6. Anatidae (General)
7. American Merganser
8. Red-Breasted Merganser
9. Hooded Merganser
10. Smew
11. Mallard
12. Black Duck
13. Florida Duck
14. Godwall
15. European Widgeon
16. Baldpate
17. European Teal
18. Green-Winged Teal
19. Blue-Winged Teal
20. Cinnamon Teal
21. Ruddy Sheldrake
22. Shoveller
23. American Pintail
24. Wood Duck
25. Rufous-Crested Duck
26. Redhead
27. Canvasback
28. American Scaup Duck
29. Lesser Scaup Duck
30. Ring-Necked Duck
Bulletin 130
31. American Goldeneye
32. Barrow Goldeneye
33. Bufflehead
34. Oldsquaw
35. Harlequin Duck
36. Labrador Duck
37. Steller Eider
38. Spectacled Eider
39. Northern Eider
40. American Eider
1. Pacific Eider
2. King Eider
3. American Scoter
4. Velvet Scoter
5. White-Winged Scoter
6. Surf Scoter
7. Ruddy Duck
8. Masked Duck
9. Snow Goose
Box 2
10. Blue Goose
11. Ross Goose
12. White-Fronted Goose
13. Bean Goose
14. Pink-Footed Goose
15. Canada Goose
16. Cackling Goose
17. Brant
18. Black Brant
19. Barnacle Goose
20. Emperor Goose
21. Black-Bellied Tree Duck, Fulvous Tree-Duck. Includes photographs
22. Whooping Swan, Whistling Swan
23. Trumpeter Swan
Bulletin 135
24. American Flamingo
25. Order Herodiones (General)
26. Roseate Spoonbill
27. White Ibis
28. Scarlet Ibis
29. White-Faced Glossy Ibis
30. Wood Ibis
31. Jabiru
32. American Bittern
Least Bittern
33. Great White Heron
34. Great Blue Heron, European Heron
35. Ward Heron
36. American Egret
37. Snowy Egret, Brewster Egret
38. Reddish Egret. Includes photographs
39. Louisiana Heron
40. Little Blue Heron
1. Green Heron
2. Black-Crowned Night Heron
3. Yellow-Crowned Night Heron
4. Order Poludicolae (general)
5. Whooping Crane
6. Little Brown Crane
7. Sandhill Crane
8. Limpkin
9. King Rail
10. Belding Rail
11. California Clapper Rail
12. Light-Footed Rail
13. Clapper Rail
14. Clapper Rail subspecies
15. Virginia Rail
16. Spotted Crake, Corn Crake
17. Sora Rail
18. Yellow Rail
19. Black Rail
20. Purple Gallinule
21. Florida Gallinule
22. American Coot
Bulletin 142
23. Order Limicolae (general)
24. Red Phalarope
25. Northern Phalarope
26. Wilson Phalarope
27. American Avocet
28. Black-Necked Stilt. Includes photograph
29. American Woodcock
30. European Snipe, Great Snipe, Jack Snipe
31. Wilson Snipe
32. Long-Billed Dowitcher. Includes photograph
33. Stilt Sandpiper
34. Knot
35. Purple Sandpiper. Includes photograph
1. Aleutian Sandpiper
2. Pectoral Sandpiper, Sharp-Tailed Sandpiper
3. White-Rumped Sandpiper
4. Baird Sandpiper
5. Least Sandpiper, Long-Toed Stint, Rufous-Necked Sandpiper
6. Red-Backed Sandpiper. Includes photographs
7. Curlew Sandpiper, Spoon-Bill Sandpiper
8. Semipalmated Sandpiper
9. Western Sandpiper
10. Sanderling
11. Marbled Godwit
12. Pacific Godwit
13. Hudsonian Godwit, Black-Tailed Godwit
14. Greater Yellow-Legs
15. Lesser Yellow-Legs
Bulletin 146
16. Solitary Sandpiper, Western Solitary Sandpiper. Includes photograph
17. Willet
18. Wandering Tattler, Ruff, Polynesian Tattler
19. Upland Plover
20. Buff-Breasted Sandpiper. Includes photographs
21. Spotted Sandpiper
22. Long-Billed Curlew, European Curlew
23. Hudsonian Curlew
24. Eskimo Curlew
25. Bristle-Thighed Curlew, Whimbrel
26. Lapwing, Dotterel
27. Black-Bellied Plover
28. Golden Plover
29. Pacific Golden Plover
30. Killdeer
31. Semipalmated Plover
1. Ringed Plover
2. Piping Plover. Includes photographs
3. Snowy Plover
4. Wilson Plover
5. Mountain Plover, Mongolian Plover
6. Surf Bird. Includes photograph
7. Turnstone, Ruddy Turnstone
8. Black Turnstone
9. Oyster Catchers. Includes photographs
10. Black Oyster Catcher
11. Mexican Jacana
Bulletin 162
12. European Partridge
13. Bobwhite
14. Florida Bobwhite, Masked Bobwhite
15. Mountain Quail
16. Arizona Scaled Quail. Includes photograph
17. California Quail. Includes photograph
18. Gambel's Quail. Includes photograph
19. Mearns's Quail
20. Richardson's Grouse
21. Sooty Grouse
22. Spruce Grouse
23. Franklin's Grouse
24. Ruffled Grouse. Includes photograph
25. Gray Ruffed Grouse
26. Willow Ptarmigan
27. Alexander's Ptarmigan
28. Rock Ptarmigan
29. Aleutian Ptarmigan (?)
30. Rock Ptarmigan subspecies
31. White-Tailed Ptarmigan. Includes photograph
32. Prairie Chicken
Box 3
33. Heath Hen. Includes photograph
34. Lesser Prairie Chicken
35. Sharp-Tailed Grouse
36. Sage Hen
37. Ring-Necked Pheasant
38. Wild Turkey
39. Wild Turkey subspecies
40. Chachalaca
41. Viosca's Pigeon. Includes photographs
42. Red-Billed Pigeon, White-Crowned Pigeon, Scaled Pigeon
43. Passenger Pigeon
1. Mourning Dove
2. Zenaida Dove, White-Fronted Dove
3. White-Winged Dove
4. Inca Dove
5. Quail Doves
Bulletin 167
6. Turkey Vulture, California Condor
7. Black Vulture
8. Harris's Hawk, Swallow-Tailed Kite
9. White-Tailed Kite
10. Mississippi Kite, Swallow-Tailed Kite
11. Everglade Kite
12. Marsh Hawk
13. Sharp-Shinned Hawk. Includes water-color sketch by F. Hennessey
14. Cooper's Hawk
15. Goshawk
16. Red-Tailed Hawk
17. Red-Tailed Hawk subspecies
18. Red-Shouldered Hawk
19. Red-Bellied Hawk, Florida Red-Shouldered Hawk, Texas Red-Shouldered Hawk, Insular Red-Shouldered Hawk
20. Zone-Tailed Hawk, White-Tailed Hawk
21. Swainson's Hawk
22. Broad-Winged Hawk
23. Short-Tailed Hawk, Mexican Black Hawk, Mexican Goshawk
24. Rough-Legged Hawk
25. Ferruginous Roughleg
26. Golden Eagle
27. Gray Sea Eagle, Steller's Sea Eagle, Harpy Eagle
28. Bald Eagle
29. American Osprey. See Bulletin 170
Bulletin 170
1. Family Falconidae (general)
2. Gyrfalcons
3. Prairie Falcon. includes photograph
4. Peregrine Falcon, Duck Hawk, Peale's Falcon
5. Pigeon Hawks, Merlin
6. Aplomado Falcon, Sparrow Hawk subspecies
7. Sparrow Hawk
8. Audubon's Caracara
9. Guadalupe Caracara
10. American Osprey. This bird is described in Bulletin 167, but is included here because Bent had it filed in this order.
11. Barn Owl
12. Owls (general)
13. Long-Eared Owl
14. Short-Eared Owl
15. Northern Barred Owl, Florida Barred Owl, Texas Barred Owl
16. Spotted Owl, Great Gray Owl
17. Richardson's Owl, Saw-Whet Owl
18. Eastern Screech Owl
19. Screech Owl subspecies
20. Spotted Screech Owl, Flammulated Screech Owl, Hawk Owl
21. Great Horned Owl
22. Horned Owl subspecies
23. Snowy Owl
24. Burrowing Owl
25. Pygmy Owls, Elf Owls
Bulletin 174
1. Ivory-Billed Woodpecker
2. Hairy Woodpeckers
3. Downy Woodpeckers
4. Red-Cockaded Woodpecker, Gilded Flickers
5. Texas Woodpecker, San Lucas Woodpecker, Cactus Woodpecker, San Fernando Woodpecker, Nuttal's Woodpecker
6. Arizona Woodpecker, White-Headed Woodpeckers
7. Arctic Three-Toed Woodpecker. Includes photograph
8. American Three-Toed Woodpecker
9. Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker
10. Red-Breasted Sapsucker, Williamson's Sapsucker
11. Pileated Woodpeckers. Includes photograph
12. Red-Headed Woodpecker
13. Ant-Eating Woodpecker, California Woodpecker, Narrow-Fronted Woodpecker, Mearns's Woodpecker, San Pedro Woodpecker
14. Lewis's Woodpecker
15. Red-Bellied Woodpecker, Golden-Fronted Woodpecker
16. Gila Woodpecker
17. Northern Flicker
18. Red-Shafted Flicker, Guadalupe Flicker
Bulletin 176
19. Carolina Parakeet, Louisiana Parakeet, Thick-Billed Parrot
20. Anis
21. Roadrunner
22. Yellow-Billed Cuckoo
23. Black-Billed Cuckoo, Maynard's Cuckoo
24. Coppery-Tailed Trogon
25. Kingfishers
26. Chuck-Will's Widow. Includes photograph
27. Whippoorwill
28. Poorwills, Merrill's Pauraque
29. Eastern Nighthawk. Includes photograph
30. Nighthawk subspecies. Includes photographs
31. Eastern Nighthawk
32. Northern Black Swift. Includes photographs
33. Vaux's Swift. Includes photographs
34. White-Throated Swift
35. Rivoli's Hummingbirds, Blue-Throated Hummingbirds
36. Ruby-Throated Hummingbird. Includes photographs
37. Black-Chinned Hummingbird, Xantus's Hummingbird
38. Costa's Hummingbird, Lucifer Hummingbird
39. Anna's Hummingbird, Buff-Bellied Hummingbird
40. Broad-Tailed Hummingbird, Heloise's Hummingbird
41. Rufous Hummingbird. Includes photographs
Box 4
42. Allen's Hummingbird
43. Calliope Hummingbird, White-Eared Hummingbird
44. Salvin's Hummingbird, Broad-Billed Hummingbird
Bulletin 179
1. Lists of Egg Collections, Bulletin 179
2. Cotingidae (general)
3. Flycatchers
4. Fork-Tailed Flycatcher, Scissor-Tailed Flycatcher. Includes photograph
5. Eastern Kingbird
6. Cassin's Kingbird, Gray Kingbird
7. Couch's Kingbird, Lichtenstein's Kingbird, West Mexican Kingbird
8. Arkansas Kingbird Includes photograph
9. Arizona Sulphur-Bellied Fly-Catcher, Derby Flycatcher
10. Northern Crested Flycatcher, Southern Crested Flycatcher. Includes photograph
11. Arizona Crested Flycatcher, Mexican Crested Flycatcher, Ash-Throated Flycatcher, Lower California Flycatcher, Olivaceous Flycatcher
12. Eastern Phoebe
13. Black Phoebe, San Quintin Phoebe, San Lucas Phoebe, Say's Phoebe, San Jose Phoebe
14. Olive-Sided Flycatcher
15. Coues's Flycatcher, Eastern Wood Pewee, Western Wood Pewee, Large-Billed Wood Pewee. Includes photographs
16. Empidomax. Includes photographs
17. Yellow-Bellied Flycatcher, Western Flycatcher
18. Acadian Flycatcher. Includes photographs
19. Alder Flycatcher, Little Flycatcher. Includes photographs
20. Least Flycatcher
21. Horned Larks. Includes photographs
22. Horned Larks, Western. Includes photographs
23. Swallows, Purple Martin. Includes photographs
24. Cliff Swallows. Includes photographs
1. Barn Swallow. Includes photograph
2. Bahama Swallow, Violet-Green Swallow, San Lucas Swallow
3. Bank Swallow
Bulletin 191
4. Canada Jay, Rocky Mountain Jay, Alaska Jay, Alberta Jay, Labrador Jay, Anticosti Jay, Pacific Canada Jay, Idaho Jay, Oregon Jay, Gray Jay. Includes photograph
5. Blue Jays. Includes photographs
6. Steller's Jay, Queen Charlotte Jay, Coast Jay, Blue-Fronted Jay, Black-Headed Jay, Long-Crested Jay, Nevada Crested Jay. Includes photographs
7. Aphelocoma
8. Northern Raven
9. Raven photographs by W. Bryant Tyrrell
10. Ravens
11. Eastern Crow
12. Fish Crow
13. Crows
14. Pinyon Jay
15. Clark's Nutcracker
16. Chickadee. Includes photographs
17. Long-Tailed Chickadee, Oregon Chickadee. Includes photographs
18. Carolina Chickadee
19. Mexican Chickadee, Alaska Chickadee, Chestnut-Backed Chickadee
20. San Pedro Chickadee, Inyo Chickadee, Grinnell's Chickadee, Short-Tailed Chickadee, Mountain Chickadee
21. Acadian Chickadee, Hudsonian Chickadee. Includes photographs
22. Tufted Titmouse
23. Egg Data; Crows, Jays, Titmice
1. Paridae (general)
2. Parus inornatus
3. Bridled Titmouse, Sennett's Titmouse, San Diego Titmouse
4. Bushtits
Bulletin 195
5. Nuthatches
6. White-Breasted Nuthatch. Includes photographs
7. Red-Breasted Nuthatch. Includes photograph
8. Creepers, Wren-Tits. Includes photographs
9. Brown Creeper. Includes photographs
10. Dipper. Includes photographs
11. Wrens (general). Includes photographs
12. Carolina Wren. Includes photographs
13. Long-Billed Marsh Wren. Includes photographs
14. Thryomanes hewickii
15. Winter Wren, Alaska Wren. Includes photographs
16. Short-Billed Marsh Wren. Includes photographs
17. House Wren. Includes photographs
18. Mockingbird. Includes photographs
19. Catbird. Includes photograph
20. Thrashers (general). Includes photographs
21. Sage Thrasher
22. Le Conte's Thrasher
23. Palmer's Thrasher. Includes photographs
24. Brown Thrasher. Includes photographs
Bulletin 196
25. Turdidae (general). Includes photographs
26. Robins. Includes photographs
Box 5
27. Wood Thrush. Includes photographs
28. Hermit Thrushes. Includes photographs
1. Olive-Backed Thrush. Includes photographs
2. Gray-Cheeked Thrush. Includes photographs
3. Bicknell's Thrush
4. Veery, Willow Thrush. Includes. photographs
5. Bluebird. Includes photographs
6. Bluebirds (general). Includes photographs
7. Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher. Includes photographs
8. Gnatcatchers (general). Includes photographs
9. Golden-Crowned Kinglet. Includes photographs
10. Ruby-Crowned Kinglet. Includes photographs
Bulletin 197
11. Wagtails (general)
12. American Pipit, Japanese Pipit, Sprague's Pipit
13. Bohemian Waxwing
14. Cedar Waxwing. Includes photographs
15. Phainopepia. Includes photographs
16. Northern Shrike. Includes photographs
17. Migrant Shrike, White-Rumped Shrike, California Shrike. Includes photographs
18. Starling, Crested Mynah. Includes photograph
19. Vireos (general). Includes photographs
20. White-Eyed Vireo. Includes photographs
21. Hutton's Vireo, Stephen's Vireo, Frazar's Vireo. Includes photographs
22. Bell's Vireo, Texas Vireo, Arizona Vireo, Least Vireo. Includes photographs
23. Yellow-Throated Vireo. Includes photographs
24. Blue-Headed Vireo, Mountain Vireo, Plumbeous Vireo, San Lucas Vireo. Includes photographs
25. Red-Eyed Vireo. Includes photographs
26. Philadelphia Vireo. Includes photographs
End of Bulletin 197
27. Warbling Vireo. Includes photographs
28. Miscellaneous notes on Fringillidae. These notes were probably originally assembled by Robert Ridgway.
29. Miscellaneous notes, unarranged. Include: (1) List of Birds observed breeding along James River Valley, Virginia, with notes accompanying eggs, by Wirt Robinson, c. 1889; (2) Notes taken in Saskatchewan by Lawrence B. Potter; (3) Unidentified measurements.
Bulletin 113
1. Skua
2. Pomarine Jaeger
3. Parasitic Jaeger
4. Long-Tailed Jaeger
5. Ivory Gull
6. Kittiwake, Pacific Kittiwake
7. Red-Legged Kittiwake
8. Glaucous Gull
9. Iceland Gull
10. Glaucous-Winged Gull
11. Kumlien's Gull
12. Nelson's Gull
13. Great Black-Backed Gull
14. Slaty-Backed Gull
15. Western Gull
16. British Lesser Black-Backed Gull
17. Herring Gull
18. Vega Gull
19. California Gull
20. Ring-Billed Gull
21. Short-Billed Gull
22. Mew Gull
23. Heermann's Gull
24. Laughing Gull
25. Franklin's Gull
26. Bonaparte's Gull
27. Little Gull
28. Ross's Gull
29. Sabine's Gull
30. Gull-Billed Tern
31. Caspian Tern
32. Royal Tern
33. Elegant Tern
34. Cabot's Tern
35. Trudeau's Tern
36. Forster's Tern
37. Common Tern
38. Arctic Tern
39. Roseate Tern
40. Aleutian Tern
41. Least Tern
42. Sooty Tern
43. Bridled Tern
44. Black Tern
45. White-Winged Black Tern
46. Noddy
47. Black Skimmer
Series 2
PHOTOGRAPHS (See also Series 4).Photographs arranged by Bulletin number and species within each Bulletin.
Box 5
Bulletin 203
1. Black-and-White Warbler
2. Prothonotary Warbler
3. Swainson's Warbler
4. Blue-Winged Warbler, Golden-Winged Warbler
5. Nashville Warbler
6. Parula Warbler
7. Yellow Warbler
8. Magnolia Warbler
9. Black-Throated Blue Warbler
10. Myrtle Warbler
11. Black-Throated Gray Warbler
12. Black-Throated Green Warbler
13. Blackburnian Warbler
14. Chestnut-Sided Warbler
15. Pine Warbler
16. Kirtland's Warbler
17. Prairie Warbler
18. Yellow Palm Warbler
19. Ovenbird
20. Kentucky Warbler
21. Northern Yellowthroat
22. Yellow-Breasted Chat
23. Hooded Warbler
24. Redstarts
Series 3
MISCELLANEOUS PHOTOGRAPHS.These photographs were not filed by Bent into either Series 1, 2, or 4. They have simply been foldered in no particular order and placed in this series.
Box 6
1. Ruffled Grouse
2. Red-Tailed Hawk
3. Sparrow Hawk
4. Broad-Winged Hawk
5. Trogon
6. Black-Footed Albatross
7. Bald Eagle
8. Marsh Hawk
9. Red-Shouldered Hawk
10. Audubon's Caracara
11. Turkey Vulture
12. White-Tailed Kite
13. Duck Hawk
14. Prairie Falcon
15. Barn Owl
16. Snowy Owl
17. Short-Eared Owl
18. Barred Owl
19. Great Blue Heron
20. Diving Birds. Includes photos used in Bulletin 107
21. Black Vulture
22. Photographs in no order as follows: Double Crested Cormorant, Sparrow Hawk, Blue Goose, Black-Billed Cuckoo, Verdin, Brown Thrasher, Yellow-Bellied Fly Catcher, Chestnut-Sided Warbler.
23. Photographs in no order as follows: Roadrunner, Golden Plover, Killdeer, Tufted Titmouse, Peewee, unidentified photos.
24. Photographs in no order as follows: Horned Lark, Kingbird, Crested Flycatcher, Peewee, Chickadee, Duck Hawk, Barred Owl.
25. Photographs in no order as follows: Everglades Kite, Black Vulture, Yellow-Billed Cuckoo, Broad-Winged Hawk, Chimney Swift.
26. Water Thrushes
27. Warblers
Series 4
PHOTOGRAPHS. (See also Series 2)Photographs arranged by Bulletin number and species within each Bulletin.
Box 7
Bulletin 113
1. Skua
2. Pomarine Jaeger
3. Parasitic Jaeger
4. Long-Tailed Jaeger
5. Kittiwake
6. Glaucous Gull
7. Glaucous-Winged Gull. Includes photograph of George G. Cantwell
8. Great Black-Backed Gull
9. Western Gull
10. Herring Gull
11. Vega Gull [negatives removed]
12. California Gull
13. Ring-Billed Gull
14. Short-Billed Gull
15. Laughing Gull [negatives removed]
16. Franklin's Gull
17. Sabine's Gull
18. Gull-Billed Tern [negatives removed]
19. Caspian Tern [negatives removed]
20. Royal Tern [negatives removed]
21. Cabot's Tern
22. Forster's Tern
23. Common Tern
24. Arctic Tern [negatives removed]
25. Roseate Tern
26. Aleutian Tern
27. Least Tern
28. Sooty Tern
29. Black Tern
30. Noddy
31. Black Skimmer
Bulletin 121
32. Black-Footed Albatross
33. Laysan Albatross
34. Sooty Albatross
35. Giant Fulmar
36. Fulmar
37. Cory Shearwater
38. Greater Shearwater
39. Pink-Footed Shearwater
40. Audubon Shearwater
41. Townsend Shearwater
42. Sooty Shearwater
43. Wedge-Tailed Shearwater
44. Peale Petrel
45. Bulwer Petrel
46. Leach Petrel
47. Wilson Petrel
48. Yellow-Billed Tropic Bird
49. Red-Billed Tropic Bird
50. Red-Tailed Tropic Bird
51. Blue-Faced Booby
52. Blue-Footed Booby
53. Booby
54. Red-Footed Booby
55. Gannet [negatives removed]
56. Water-Turkey
57. Cormorant
58. Double-Crested Cormorant
59. Mexican Cormorant
60. Brandt Cormorant
61. Pelagic Cormorant
62. White Pelican
63. Brown Pelican [negatives removed]
64. California Brown Pelican
65. Man-O'-War-Bird
Box 8
Bulletin 126
1. American Merganser
2. Red-Breasted Merganser
3. Hooded Merganser
4. Mallard
5. Black Duck
6. Florida Duck
7. Gadwall
8. Baldpate
9. European Teal
10. Green-Winged Teal
11. Blue-Winged Teal
12. Cinnamon Teal
13. Shoveller
14. Pintail
15. Wood Duck
16. Redhead
17. Canvasback
18. Scaup Duck
19. Lesser Scaup Duck
20. Ring-Necked Duck
Bulletin 130
21. American Goldeneye
22. Bufflehead
23. Oldsquaw [negatives removed]
24. Pacific Harlequin Duck
25. Steller Eider
26. Spectacled Eider [negatives removed]
27. Eider
28. Pacific Eider
29. White-Winged Scoter
30. Ruddy Duck
31. Snow Goose
32. Blue Goose
33. White-Fronted Goose [negatives removed]
34. Canada Goose [negatives removed]
35. Brant, Pink-Footed Goose, Barnacle Goose
36. Black Brant [negatives removed]
37. Emperor Goose
38. Fulvous Tree Duck
39. Whooping Swan
40. Whistling Swan
41. Trumpeter Swan
Bulletin 135
42. American Flamingo
43. Roseate Spoonbill
44. White Ibis
45. White-Faced Glossy Ibis, Glossy Ibis
46. Wood Ibis
47. Jabiru
48. American Bittern
49. Least Bittern
50. Great White Heron
51. Great Blue Heron [negatives removed]
52. American Egret
53. Snowy Egret
54. Reddish Egret [negatives removed]
55. Louisiana Heron
56. Little Blue Heron
57. Green Heron
58. Black-Crowned Night Heron
59. Yellow-Crowned Night Heron
60. Whooping Crane
61. Little Brown Crane
62. Sandhill Crane
63. Limpkin
64. King Rail
65. California Clapper Rail, Light-Footed Rail
66. Clapper Rail [negatives removed]
67. Virginia Rail
68. Sora Rail
69. Yellow Rail
70. Black Rail, Farallon Rail
Box 9
1. Purple Gallinule
2. Florida Gallinule
3. American Coot
Bulletin 142
4. Red Phalarope [negatives removed]
5. Northern Phalarope [negatives removed]
6. Wilson Phalarope
7. American Avocet
8. Black-Necked Stilt
9. American Woodcock
10. Wilson Snipe
11. Eastern Dowitcher
12. Long-Billed Dowitcher
13. Knot
14. Aleutian Sandpiper
15. Pectoral Sandpiper
16. White-Rumped Sandpiper
17. Baird Sandpiper
18. Least Sandpiper
19. Red-Backed Sandpiper
20. Curlew Sandpiper
21. Spoon-Bill Sandpiper
22. Semipalmated Sandpiper
23. Western Sandpiper
24. Sanderling
25. Marbled Godwit
26. Pacific Godwit
27. Black-Tailed Godwit
28. Greater Yellow-Legs
29. Yellow-Legs
Bulletin 146
30. Solitary Sandpiper
Box 10
31. Willet
32. Wandering Tattler
33. Ruff
34. Upland Plover
35. Spotted Sandpiper
36. Long-Billed Curlew
37. Hudsonian Curlew, Whimbrel
38. Lapwing, Dotterel
39. Black-Bellied Plover [negatives removed]
40. Golden Plover [negatives removed]
41. Ringed Plover
42. Piping Plover
43. Snowy Plover
44. Wilson Plover
45. Mountain Plover
46. Norfolk Plover, Kentish Plover
47. Surf Bird
48. Turnstone
49. Black Turnstone
50. Oyster Catcher
51. Frazer Oyster Catcher, Black Oyster Catcher
52. Killdeer
53. Semipalmated Plover
54. Mexican Jacana
Bulletin 162
55. Bobwhite
56. Mountain Quail
57. Scaled Quail
58. California Quail
59. Gambel's Quail
60. Mearns's Quail
61. Dusky Grouse
62. Spruce Grouse
63. Franklin's Grouse
64. Ruffled Grouse
65. Willow Ptarmigan
66. Rock Ptarmigan and subspecies
67. White-Tailed Ptarmigan
68. Prairie Chicken
69. Heath Hen
70. Lesser Prairie Chicken
71. Sharp-Tailed Grouse
72. Sage Hen
73. Ring-Necked Pheasant
74. Wild Turkey
75. Unassorted Columbidae
76. Band-Tailed Pigeon
77. White-Crowned Pigeon
78. Mourning Dove
79. Ground Dove
Bulletin 167
80. California Condor
Box 11
1. Turkey Vulture
2. Black Vulture [negatives removed]
3. Swallow-Tailed Kite
4. White-Tailed Kite, Mississippi Kite
5. Everglade Kite
6. Marsh Hawk
7. Sharp-Shinned Hawk
8. Cooper's Hawk
9. Goshawk
10. Red-Tailed Hawk and subspecies
11. Red-Shouldered Hawk and subspecies
12. Zone-Tailed Hawk
13. Sennett's White-Tailed Hawk
14. Swainson's Hawk
15. Short-Tailed Hawk
16. Mexican Black Hawk, Mexican Goshawk
17. American Rough-Legged Hawk
18. Ferruginous Roughleg
19. Golden Eagle
20. Bald Eagle
21. American Osprey
Bulletin 170
22. Gyrfalcon
23. Prairie Falcon
24. Duck Hawk
25. Pigeon Hawk
26. Sparrow Hawk
27. Audubon's Caracara
28. Barn Owl
29. Long-Eared Owl
30. Short-Eared Owl
31. Spotted Owl
32. Great Gray Owl
33. Richardson's Owl
34. Saw-Whet Owl
Box 12
1. Screech Owl
2. Flammulated Screech Owl
3. Great Horned Owl
4. Great Horned Owl subspecies
5. Snowy Owl [negatives removed]
6. Hawk Owl
7. Burrowing Owl
8. Pygmy Owl
9. Elf Owl
Bulletin 174
10. Hairy Woodpecker
11. Downy Woodpecker and subspecies
12. Red-Cockaded Woodpecker
13. Nuttall's Woodpecker
14. Arizona Woodpecker
15. White-Headed Woodpecker
1. Red-Headed Woodpecker
2. California Woodpecker
3. Lewis's Woodpecker
4. Red-Bellied Woodpecker
5. Gila Woodpecker, Gilded Flicker
6. Flicker
7. Arctic Three-Toed Woodpecker, American Three-Toed Woodpecker
8. Red-Shafted Flicker
9. Ivory-Billed Woodpecker
10. Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker, Williamson's Sapsucker
11. Pileated Woodpecker
Bulletin 176
12. Groove-Billed Ani
13. Roadrunner
14. Yellow-Billed Cuckoo
15. Black-Billed Cuckoo
16. Kingfishers
17. Chuck-Will's Widow
18. Whippoorwill
19. Poorwill, Pauraque
20. Nighthawk
21. Nighthawk subspecies
22. Texas Nighthawk
23. Black Swift
24. Chimney Swift
25. White-Throated Swift
26. Rivoli's Hummingbird
27. Blue-Throated Hummingbird
28. Ruby-Throated Hummingbird
29. Black-Chinned Hummingbird
Box 13
1. Costa's Hummingbird
2. Anna's Hummingbird, Broad-Tailed Hummingbird
3. Rufous Hummingbird
4. Allen's Hummingbird
5. Calliope Hummingbird
Bulletin 179
6. Cotingas
7. Kingbirds
8. Arkansas Kingbird
9. Crested Flycatcher
10. Ash-Throated Flycatcher
11. Eastern Phoebe
12. Say's Phoebe
13. Black Phoebe
14. Yellow-Bellied Flycatcher, Western Flycatcher
15. Acadian Flycatcher
16. Alder Flycatcher
17. Coues's Flycatcher
18. Wood Pewee
19. Western Wood Pewee
20. Olive-Sided Flycatcher
21. Least Flycatcher
22. Wright's Flycatcher
23. Gray Flycatcher
24. Buff-Breasted Flycatcher
25. Horned Larks
26. Swallows
27. Cliff Swallow
28. Barn Swallow
29. Tree Swallow
30. Bank Swallow
31. Rough-Winged Swallow
Series 5
NEGATIVE PLATES.Arranged by species as they were received in the Archives, not in the same order as Series 1, 2 and 4. Some of these negatives contain nitrate.
Box 14
1. Common Loon, nests
2. Red-throated Loon, nests
3. Holboell's Grebe, nests
4. Horned Grebe, nests
5. Eared Grebe, nests
6. Mexican Grebe, nests
7. Western Grebe, nests
8. Pied-billed Grebe, nests
9. Scaled Petrel, downy
10. Leach's Petrel, nests
11. Eastern Brown Pelican, series
12. Gannet, series
13. Double-crest. Cormorant, nests
14. Florida Cormorant, nests
15. Red-faced Cormorant, nests & adults
16. Water-turkey, series
17. Great White Heron, series
18. Great Blue Heron, nests
19. Ward's Heron, nests
20. American Egret, nests
21. Snowy Egret, series
22. Reddish Egret, series
23. Louisiana Heron, series
24. Little Blue Heron, series
25. E. Green Heron, series
26. Black-crowned Night Heron, series
27. Yellow-crowned Night Heron, nests
28. American Bittern, nests
29. E. Least Bittern, nests
30. Wood Ibis, series
31. White Ibis, series
32. Roseate Spoonbill, nests
33. Pacific Fulmar, site
34. Common Canada Goose, nests & ad.
35. Common Mallard, nests
36. Common Black Duck, nests
37. Florida Duck, nests
38. Mottled Duck, nests
39. Gadwall, nests
40. Baldpate, nests
41. American Pintail, nests
42. Shoveller, nests
43. Wood Duck nest tree
44. Redhead, nest tree
45. Ring-necked Duck, nest
46. Canvas-back, nest
47. Greater Scaup Duck, nest
Box 15
1. Lesser Scaup Duck, nest
2. American Golden-eye, nest tree.
3. Oldsquaw, nest tree.
4. Northern Eider, nest tree
5. American Eider, nest tree
6. Ruddy Duck, nest tree
7. American Merganser, nest tree.
8. Red-breast, Merganser, nest
9. California Condor, site.
10. Turkey Vulture, ad.
11. Black Vulture, Adults.
12. White-tailed Kite, nest.
13. Sharp-shinned Hawk, nest.
14. Cooper's Hawk, series.
15. Eastern Red-tailed Hawk, series
16. Florida Red-tailed Hawk, tree.
17. Western Red-tailed Hawk, tree.
18. Northern Red-shouldered Hawk, series
19. Florida Red-shouldered Hawk, nest.
20. Red-bellied Hawk, tree
21. Broad-winged Hawk, tree & nest
22. Swainson's Hawk, tree & nest
23. Zone-tailed Hawk, tree & nest
24. Ferruginous Rough-leg, tree
25. Mexican Black Hawk, tree
26. Golden Eagle, sites.
27. Northern Bald Eagle, tree & nest
28. Southern Bald Eagle, trees
29. Marsh Hawk, nests, eggs & young
30. American Osprey, large series
31. Audubon's Caracara, tree
32. Prairie Falcon, site
33. Duck Hawk, site
34. Eastern Pigeon Hawk, nests
35. Eastern Sparrow Hawk, adults.
36. Little Sparrow Hawk, tree
37. Sooty Grouse, nest
38. Eastern Ruffed Grouse, nests
39. Willow Ptarmigan, nests
40. Prairie Sharp-tailed Grouse, nest & ad.
41. Eastern Bobwhite, nest & ad.
42. Arizona Scaled Quail, nest
43. Valley Quail, birds
44. Gambel's Quail, nest
45. Ring-neck. Pheasant, nest
46. Florida Crane, nest & ad.
47. King Rail, nest
48. Northern Clapper Rail, nests
49. Virginia Rail, nest
50. Purple Gallinule, nest
51. American Coot, nest
52. American Oystercatcher, nest
53. Piping Plover, series
54. Western Snowy Plover, series
55. Semipalmated Plover, nest
56. Wilson's Plover, nest
57. Killdeer, nest
58. Ruddy Turnstone, young
59. American Woodcock, ad. & young
60. Wilson's Snipe, nest
61. Long-billed Curlew, young
62. Upland Plover, nests
Box 16
1. Spotted Sandpiper, nest
2. Eastern Willet, nests
3. Western Willet, nests
4. Pectoral Sandpiper, nest
5. Least Sandpiper, young
6. Long-billed Dowitcher, series.
7. Western Sandpiper, nest
8. Marbled Godwit, series
9. Pacific Godwit, young
10. Avocet, nests
11. Black-necked Stilt, nests
12. Wilson's Phalarope, nests
13. Northern Phalarope, nests
14. Long-tailed Jaeger, nest
15. Glaucous-winged Gull, colony
16. Great Black-backed Gull, nest
17. Western Gull, adults
18. Herring Gull, series
19. California Gull, colony
20. Ring-billed Gull, colony
21. Short-billed Gull, nest
22. Laughing Gull, series
23. Franklin's Gull, series
24. Atlantic Kittiwake, series
25. Pacific Kittiwake, series
26. Sabine's Gull, nest, young
27. Gull-billed Tern, nests
28. Forster's Tern, nests
29. Common Tern, series
30. Arctic Tern, nests
31. Roseate Tern, series
32. Aleutian Tern, nests
33. Least Tern, series
34. Royal Tern, series
35. Cabot's Tern, series
36. Caspian Tern, nests
37. Black Tern, nests
38. Black Skimmer, series
39. Razor-billed Auk, adult
40. Atlantic Murre, series
41. California Murre, colonies
42. Pallas's Murre, colonies
43. Black Guillemot, nest
44. Paroquet Auklet, adult
45. Atlantic Puffin, burrows & ad.
46. Horned Puffin, site
47. Eastern Mourning Dove, ad. & nest
48. Eastern Ground Dove, nest
49. Mexican Ground Dove, nest
Box 17
1. Road-runner, nest
2. Eastern Screech Owl, adult
3. Florida Screech Owl, site
4. Great Horned Owl, series
5. Pacific Horned Owl, tree
6. Snowy Owl, adult
7. Elf Owl, site
8. Florida Burrowing Owl, adult
9. California Spotted Owl, site
10. Long-eared Owl, series
11. Saw-whet Owl, site
12. Chuck-will's-widow, nest
13. Eastern Whip-poor-will, nest
14. Blue-throated Hummingbird, site
15. California Woodpecker, acorn store
16. Northern Hairy Woodpecker, tree
17. Chihuahua Woodpecker, tree
18. Nuttall's Woodpecker, tree
19. Black Phoebe, nest
20. Olive-sided Flycatcher, nest
21. Northern Blue Jay, nest
22. Long-crested Jay, nest
23. American Raven, site
24. White-necked Raven, site
25. Eastern Crow, nest
26. Black-capped Chickadee, young
27. Lead colored Bush-tit, nest
28. Pygmy Nuthatch, tree
29. Mexican Creeper, tree
30. Northern Cactus Wren, nests
31. Short-billed Marsh Wren, nest
32. Canon Wren, site
33. Common Rock Wren, nest
34. Western Mockingbird, nest
35. Brown Thrasher, nest
36. Palmer's Thrasher, nest
37. Leconte's Thrasher, nest
38. Crissal Thrasher, nest
39. American Robin
40. Wood Thrush, nest
41. Eastern Hermit Thrush, nest
42. Bicknell's Thrush, site
43. Veery
44. Western Gnatcatcher, nest
45. American Pipit, nest
46. Cedar Waxwing, birds
47. Migrant Shrike
48. Yellow-throated Vireo, nest
49. Blue-headed Vireo, nest
50. White-Eyed Vireo
51. Hoary Redpoll, nest
Series 6
COPY NEGATIVES.Box 18
Negatives SA7120-558 to SIA7120-V4
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