Birds that Audubon skipped over or maybe forgot about so not in “Birds of America.” Plates from John Cassin’s “Illustrations of the Birds of California, Texas, Oregon, British, and Russian America: (Forming a Supplement to Audubon’s Birds of America) . . . “Published in 1856. Russian America being what became Seward’s Folly and then the State of Alaska.

The Californian Woodpecker – Melanerpes formicivorus (Swains). George G. White, artist. Drawn on stone by W. E. Hitchcock. Lithograph, printed and colored by J. T. Bowen, Philadelphia. Plate 2, Image 24 of John Cassin’s Illustrations of the Birds of California, Texas, Oregon, British, and Russian America: (Forming a Supplement to Audubon’s Birds of America) . . . American. Published in Philadelphia by J. P. Lippincott in 1856. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/10231219bsb/page/n23/mode/1up

The Massena Partridge – Cyrtonyx massena (Lesson). George G. White, artist. Drawn on stone by W. E. Hitchcock. Lithograph, printed and colored by J. T. Bowen, Philadelphia. Plate 4, Image 45 of John Cassin’s Illustrations of the Birds of California, Texas, Oregon, British, and Russian America: (Forming a Supplement to Audubon’s Birds of America) . . . American. Published in Philadelphia by J. P. Lippincott in 1856. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/10231219bsb/page/n45/mode/1up

The White Headed Gull – Larus heermanni (Lesson). George G. White, artist. Drawn on stone by W. E. Hitchcock. Lithograph, printed and colored by J. T. Bowen, Philadelphia. Plate 5, Image 58 of John Cassin’s Illustrations of the Birds of California, Texas, Oregon, British, and Russian America: (Forming a Supplement to Audubon’s Birds of America) . . . American. Published in Philadelphia by J. P. Lippincott in 1856. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/10231219bsb/page/n58/mode/1up

Gambels Partridge. Callipepla gambelii (Nutt). . George G. White, artist. Drawn on stone by W. E. Hitchcock. Lithograph, printed and colored by J. T. Bowen, Philadelphia. Plate 9, Image 88 of John Cassin’s Illustrations of the Birds of California, Texas, Oregon, British, and Russian America: (Forming a Supplement to Audubon’s Birds of America) . . . American. Published in Philadelphia by J. P. Lippincott in 1856. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/10231219bsb/page/n89/mode/1up

The Crowned Flycatcher – Pyrocephalus rubineus (Budd). Drawn on stone by W. E. Hitchcock. Lithograph, printed and colored by J. T. Bowen, Philadelphia. Plate 18, Image 88 of John Cassin’s Illustrations of the Birds of California, Texas, Oregon, British, and Russian America: (Forming a Supplement to Audubon’s Birds of America) . . . American. Published in Philadelphia by J. P. Lippincott in 1856. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/10231219bsb/page/n205/mode/1up

The purple throated Humming Bird – Trochulus Alexandri (Bourcier). Drawn on stone by W. E. Hitchcock. Lithograph, printed and colored by J. T. Bowen, Philadelphia. Plate 22, Image 235 of John Cassin’s Illustrations of the Birds of California, Texas, Oregon, British, and Russian America: (Forming a Supplement to Audubon’s Birds of America) . . . American. Published in Philadelphia by J. P. Lippincott in 1856. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/10231219bsb/page/n235/mode/1up

The black throated Finch – Emberiza bilineala (Cassin). Drawn on stone by W. E. Hitchcock. Lithograph, printed and colored by J. T. Bowen, Philadelphia. Plate 23, Image 250 of John Cassin’s Illustrations of the Birds of California, Texas, Oregon, British, and Russian America: (Forming a Supplement to Audubon’s Birds of America) . . . American. Published in Philadelphia by J. P. Lippincott in 1856. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/10231219bsb/page/n250/mode/1up

The Prince Maximilian’s Jay – Gymuokitta cyanocephala (De Wied). Drawn on stone by W. E. Hitchcock. Lithograph, printed and colored by J. T. Bowen, Philadelphia. Plate 28, Image 283 of John Cassin’s Illustrations of the Birds of California, Texas, Oregon, British, and Russian America: (Forming a Supplement to Audubon’s Birds of America) . . . American. Published in Philadelphia by J. P. Lippincott in 1856. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/10231219bsb/page/n283/mode/1up

The American Stonechat – Saxicola aenanthoides (Vigors). Drawn on stone by W. E. Hitchcock. Lithograph, printed and colored by J. T. Bowen, Philadelphia. Plate 34, Image 347 of John Cassin’s Illustrations of the Birds of California, Texas, Oregon, British, and Russian America: (Forming a Supplement to Audubon’s Birds of America) . . . American. Published in Philadelphia by J. P. Lippincott in 1856. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/10231219bsb/page/n347/mode/1up

The Vermillion Flycatcher – Cardellina rubra (Swainson). Drawn on stone by W. E. Hitchcock. Lithograph, printed and colored by J. T. Bowen, Philadelphia. Plate 43, Image 441 of John Cassin’s Illustrations of the Birds of California, Texas, Oregon, British, and Russian America: (Forming a Supplement to Audubon’s Birds of America) . . . American. Published in Philadelphia by J. P. Lippincott in 1856. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/10231219bsb/page/n441/mode/1up

The short tailed Albatross – Diomedea albatrus (Temm). Drawn on stone by W. E. Hitchcock. Lithograph, printed and colored by J. T. Bowen, Philadelphia. Plate 50, Image 491 of John Cassin’s Illustrations of the Birds of California, Texas, Oregon, British, and Russian America: (Forming a Supplement to Audubon’s Birds of America) . . . American. Published in Philadelphia by J. P. Lippincott in 1856. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/10231219bsb/page/n491/mode/1up

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