An interesting historic illustration from the voluminous Pacific Railroad Surveys (1850's). These, and the similar Mexican Boundary Survey publications have a number of hand-colored lithographs of birds. The artists and lithographers were not credited, but the zoological works were produced under the editorship of Spencer Fullerton Baird. This is a cleaned up version of a scanned image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library:biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11616765
The birds of North America
New York, U.S.A. :Published under the auspices of the Natural Science Association of America,1895, c1888.
biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41959221
The birds of North America
New York :Published under the auspices of the Natural Science Association of America,1903.
biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35159863