[Illustration: Plate 1
The Mexican Jay
Cyanocorax luxuosus (_Lesson_)]
ILLUSTRATIONS
OF THE
BIRDS
OF
CALIFORNIA, TEXAS, OREGON, BRITISH AND RUSSIAN AMERICA.
INTENDED TO CONTAIN DESCRIPTIONS AND FIGURES
OF ALL
_North American Birds_
NOT GIVEN BY FORMER AMERICAN AUTHORS,
AND A
GENERAL SYNOPSIS OF NORTH AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY.
BY
JOHN CASSIN,
MEMBER OF THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA; OF THE
AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY; OF THE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF
PENNSYLVANIA; OF THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE; OF THE SOUTH CAROLINA NATURAL
HISTORY SOCIETY; OF THE NEW YORK LYCEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY; OF THE
NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF MONTREAL, ETC. ETC.
1853 TO 1855.
PHILADELPHIA:
J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO.
1856.
Entered, according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1855, by
JOHN CASSIN,
in the Clerk’s office of the District Court of the United States for
the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.