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“Descriptions of New Species of Fishes Collected in Texas, New Mexico and Sonora, by Mr. John H. Clark, on the U. S. and Mexican Boundary Survey, and in Texas by Capt. Steward Van Vliet, U. S. A.”, by F. S. Baird and Charles Girard, Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Vol. 7, 1854-1855, pp. 26 - 29, lists some of the species that Clark collected in the Black Range. See following plates:
• Pimelodus affinis (see following page) at page 26 (from the Rio Grande);
• Catostomus plebeius at page 28 (Rio Mimbres); and • Gila pulchella at page 29 (Rio Mimbres).
Issac Sprague
Sprague, who did not serve on the survey worked with Asa Gray for many years and did the botanical illustrations for many of the reports on the western expeditions which Gray was involved in writing. Although not attributed, a number of the drawings in the “Botany” volume of the survey report are thought to have been done by Sprague. While working on the Missouri River, he and John James Audubon discovered a pipit which was later named for him, Sprague’s Pipit.
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