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Maryland Ornithological Society

Maryland / District of Columbia Records Committee

Chronology of Major Historical Checklist Publications

24 December 2009

PRELIMINARY DRAFT

Number of Species
Author Year Region MD DC Title Citation Publisher Comments Link
Warden, David Baillie. 1816 32 Birds seen in the District of Columbia.
A chorographical and statistical description of the District of Columbia, the seat of the general
government of the United States, with and engraved plans of the district, and view of the Capitol.
Smith. Paris.
http://books.google.com/books/pdf/A_Chorographical_and_Statistical_Descrip.pdf?id=Jn8FAAAAQAAJ&output=pdf
&sig=ACfU3U328rkqqPYvp6osn03XXsWCEGJrUA

Coues, Elliot, and D. 1861 226 List of birds ascertained to inhabit the District of Columbia..
Webster Prentiss. Sixteenth annual report of the Smithsonian Institution, 1861, pp. 399-421.
Washington, D.C.
225 species per Cooke 1921

Jouy, Pierre Louis. 1876 240 Birds in the District of Columbia.

Field and Forest 2(9):154-156.
Bulletin of the Potomac-side Naturalists' Club. Columbia Press. Washington D.C.

??. 1877 Game and other birds of the District of Columbia--their habitats, haunts, etc.--an interesting field for
sprotsmen and naturalists.
Forest and Stream 8(9):133-134.
Forest and Stream Publishing Co. New York, NY .

Coues, Elliot, and D. 1877 240 Remarks on the birds of the District of Columbia.
Webster Prentiss. Field and Forest 2(11):191-193.
Bulletin of the Potomac-side Naturalists' Club. Columbia Press. Washington D.C.

Jouy, Pierre Louis. 1877 240 Catalogue of the birds of the District of Columbia.
Field and Forest 2 (9, 10):154-156, 178-181.
Bulletin of the Potomac-side Naturalists' Club. Columbia Press. Washington D.C.

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Author Year Region MD DC Title Citation Publisher Comments Link
Coues, Elliot, and D. 1883 250 Avifauna Columbiana: being a list of birds ascertained to inhabit the District of Columbia, 2nd edition.
Webster Prentiss. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 32(26):1-133.
Government Printing Office. Washington, D.C.
http://books.google.com/books/pdf/Bulletin.pdf?id=HroAAAAAYAAJ&output=pdf&sig=ACfU3U1fEkGu -
WdpfTb_rTUyxQtRUjxbgA

Kirkwood, Frank C. 1895 281 A list of the birds of Maryland.

Transactions of the Maryland Academy of Sciences 2:241-382.
Maryland Academy of Sciences.

Maynard, Lucy Warner. 1898 289 Birds of Washington and vicinity, including adjacent parts of Maryland and Virginia,
The Lord Baltimore Press. Baltimore.
http://www.archive.org/download/birdsofwashingto00maynrich/birdsofwashingto00maynrich.pdf

Maynard, Lucy Warner. 1898 291 Birds of Washington and vicinity

Woodward and Lothrop. Washington, D.C.
Includes C.W. Richmond's "List of all birds found in the District of Columbia." (includes subspecies? per
http://books.google.com/books/pdf/Birds_of_Washington_and_Vicinity.pdf?id=vUMaAAAAYAAJ&output=pdf&sig=ACf
U3U0hCoNVkT s44Eit75X4KkJW9zr6zg

Maynard, Lucy Warner. 1902 290 291 Birds of Washington and vicinity, including adjacent parts of Maryland and Virginia, revised edition.
Woodward and Lothrop. Washington, D.C.
Includes C.W. Richmond's "List of all birds found in the District of Columbia." (includes subspecies? per
http://www.archive.org/details/washingtobirdsof00maynrich

Cooke, Wells W. 1908 293 Bird migration in the District of Columbia.

Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 21:107-118.
Biological Society of Washington.

Maynard, Lucy Warner. 1909 Birds of Washington and vicinity, including adjacent parts of Maryland and Virginia, revised edition.
Woodward and Lothrop. Washington, D.C.
[different from 1902 version?]

Cooke, Wells W. 1913 293 Bird migration in the District of Columbia [revised - spring].
Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 26:21-25.
Biological Society of Washington.

McAtee, Waldo Lee. 1918 A sketch of the natural history of the District of Columbia.
Bulletin of the Biological Society of Washington 1:1-142.
Biological Society of Washington.
-
http://books.google.com/books/pdf/A_Sketch_of_the_Natural_History_of_the_D.pdf?id=k8nX
4t7ZIUC&output=pdf&sig=ACfU3U2xhAaehy3YJHRMxNElenveyIZnrQ

Cooke, May Thacher. 1921 302 Birds of the Washington region.

Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 34:1-22.
Biological Society of Washington.
published as 299 + 2

Cooke, May Thacher. 1929 308 Birds of the Washington D.C. region.
Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 42:1-80.
Biological Society of Washington.

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 Number of Species
Author Year Region MD DC Title Citation Publisher Comments Link
Fisher, Albert K.. 1935 Birds, in the series Natural History of Plummers Island, Maryland.
Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 48: 159-167.
Biological Society of Washington.

Hampe, Irving E., and 1947 365 Preliminary list of the birds of Maryland and the District of Columbia.
Haven Kolb.
The Natural History Society of Maryland.

Stewart, Robert E., and 1958 353 Birds of Maryland and the District of Columbia.
Chandler S. Robbins. North American Avifauna, No. 62. 401 pp.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Robbins, Chandler. S. and 1968 Field list of the birds of Maryland.

W. T . Van Velzen. Maryland Avifauna Number 2.
Maryland Ornithological Society.

Robbins, Chandler S. and 1977 390 Field list of the birds of Maryland, 2nd edition.
Danny Bystrak. Maryland Avifauna Number 2.
Maryland Ornithological Society.

Czaplak, David, et al. 1985 302 Report of the District of Columbia Bird Records Committee
Atlantic Naturalist 35(5):22-??.
Audubon Naturalist Society.

Iliff, Marshall J., Robert 1996 424 Field list of the birds of Maryland, 3rd edition.
F . Ringler, and James L. Maryland Avifauna Number 2.
Stasz. Maryland Ornithological Society.

Maryland / District of 2009 435 Official List of the Birds of Maryland

Columbia Records Committee MOS MD/DCRC web site, last accessed 12/24/2009
Maryland Ornithological Society.
http://www.mdbirds.org/mddcrc/pdf/mdlist.pdf

Maryland / District of 2009 330 Official List of the Birds of the District of Columbia
Columbia Records Committee MOS MD/DCRC web site, last accessed 12/24/2009
Maryland Ornithological Society.
http://www.mdbirds.org/mddcrc/pdf/dclist.pdf

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