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title	:	The Natural History of the Lewis and Clark Expedition Red Cedar Classics
author	:	Carriker, Robert C.
publisher	:	Michigan State University Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0870133896
print isbn13	:	9780870133893
ebook isbn13	:	9780585250755
language	:	English
subject	Zoology--West (U.S.) , Lewis and Clark Expedition--(1804-1806) , Lewis, Meriwether,--1774-1809, Clark, William,--1770-1838.
publication date	:	1995
lcc	:	QL155.N38 1995eb
ddc	:	591.978
subject	:	Zoology--West (U.S.) , Lewis and Clark Expedition--(1804-1806) , Lewis, Meriwether,--1774-1809, Clark, William,--1770-1838.

Page i The Natural History of the Lewis and Clark Expedition

Page ii MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS RED CEDAR CLASSICS

Page iii The Natural History of the Lewis and Clark Expedition Raymond Darwin Burroughs, Editor With a New Introduction by Robert Carriker Michigan State University Press East Lansing 1995

Page iv Copyright 1961 and 1995 Michigan State University Press All Michigan State University Press books are produced on paper which meets the requirements of American National Standard of Information SciencesPermanence of paper for printed materials ANSI Z39.48-1984. Michigan State University Press East Lansing, Michigan 48823-5202 03 02 01 00 99 98 97 96 95 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Cover art for the Paperback edition is a painting by Olaf Seltzer, "The Lolo Pass," oil on board, number 0137.797. From the Collection of Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa. All maps were drawn by Antoinette C. Smith.

Page v Contents Foreword vii Acknowledgments xii Introduction to the Paperback Edition by Robert C. Carriker xiii Chapter I: Introduction 1 Chapter II: Bears and Raccoons 52 Chapter III: The Weasel Family 70 Chapter IV: The Wild Dogs and Cats 84 Chapter V: Rodents and Rabbits 96 Chapter VI: Deer, Elk and Antelope 124 Chapter VII: The American Bison 147 Chapter VIII: Mountain Goats and Bighorn Sheep 168 Chapter IX: Diving and Wading Birds 177 Chapter X: Ducks, Geese and Swans 187 Chapter XI: Birds of Prey 201 Chapter XII: The Gallinaceous Birds 211 Chapter XIII: Marsh and Shore Birds 224 Chapter XIV: Gulls and Terns 230 Chapter XV: Pigeons, Parroquets, Goatsuckers and Hummingbirds 233 Chapter XVI: The Woodpeckers 239 Chapter XVII: The Passerine Birds 243 Chapter XVIII: Fishes 260 Chapter XIX: Reptiles and Amphibians 272 Chapter XX: Quantity and Distribution of Game Killed 282 Appendix 289 Bibliography 312 Index 331

Page vii Foreword The journals of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark contain the first reliable descriptions of wildlife populations in the areas drained by the Missouri and Columbia rivers. Dr. Elliott Coues, an eminent ornithologist, in 1876, wrote the following appraisal of the zoological results of the expedition: "The contribution to zoology made by Lewis and Clarke, though not extensive, shares the interest which attaches to every result of this unprecedented expedition, and assumes, moreover, great importance in the fact that to it we owe our first acquaintance with a large number of species. It represented a decided advance upon the knowledge before possessed of this subject. Lewis and Clarke were the real discoverers, and actually the original describers, of many animals with which their names are seldom associated now in our acquired familiarity with the same species under names subsequently bestowed by others. They were not trained naturalists, nor naturalists at all, excepting in so far as good observers in any new field, keenly alive to the requirements of the case, become naturalists as a matter of course. Unfortunately for themselves, they imposed no scientific names, which throws them out of the case in questions of nomenclature. But their descriptions, characterized by a straightforward simplicity, and in general accurate, suffice for the identification of most of their species, and many of them are the whole basis of scientific terms afterward introduced into the system. These descriptions of physical characters are often accompanied by notices of habits, of geographical distribution, economic importance, etc."1

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