Abstract:
The purpose of this work is to make available reports and letters for
the Oregon Coast that were in the files of the Biological Survey and that
are now in the files of the Biological Survey's successor, the U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service. I have changed outdated bird names to those that are used
today, so that the reader can more easily understand the reports. But this
monograph does not analyze these reports or letters; that is left to the
reader.
Not all of these reports were done for the Biological Survey. The
reports in 1884 and 1885 were for the American Ornithologists' Union
Committee on Bird Migration, reports in 1886-1890 were for the U.S.
Department of Agriculture (USDA), Division of Entomology, Investigations in
Economic Ornithology; reports in 1891-1896 were for the USDA, Division
of Economic Ornithology and Mammalogy or Division of Ornithology and
Mammalogy; reports in 1897-1905 were for the USDA, Division of Biological
Survey; and reports in 1906-1923 were for the USDA, Bureau of Biological
Survey.
Ira N. Gabrielson and Stanley G. Jewett both worked for the Biological
Survey and used some of the unpublished information in the Biological Survey
files in writing their classic 1940 book. They discussed the work of the
Biological Survey in Oregon on their pages 56-58.
The observations in the Biological Survey files and those cited by
Gabrielson and Jewett (1940) are sometimes the only information available
about birds in some parts of Oregon prior to 1940. Unfortunately, it has
not been widely known that at least some of the files accumulated by the
Biological Survey still exist and are on microfilm ("Bird Migration
Schedules, Reel 17, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, and Ohio") at the U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service's Patuxent Wildlife Research Center Library in
Laurel, Maryland. Upon request, the Patuxent Library may loan out the
microfilm reel through Interlibrary Loan to an established library, where
the reader can then peruse the contents.
Description:
Preface -- Introduction -- Contents of Biological Survey Records -- Introduction to Oregon Coast Reports and Letters -- Interpretation and Evaluation of Reports -- Biological Survey Reports and Letters for the Oregon Coast -- Appendix I. List of all 1884-1923 Oregon Bird Notes in Biological Survey Files -- Appendix II. Index of Appendix I -- Appendix III. Translation of Outdated Common Bird Names to Current Common Names -- Appendix IV. Translation of Outdated Scientific Bird Names to Current Common Names -- Appendix V. Current Scientific Names for Current Common Names -- References -- Index to Oregon Coast Reports and Letters -- Information about the Author
