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species are well known. Tables of synonyms I have also judged
superfluous. Indeed, the technical descriptions and references
you will find as appendages to the more generally interesting
descriptions of the habits of each species ; so that you may read
them or not, just as you please. Yet, should you be inclined
to enter into these matters, I trust you will find in these appendages
descriptions constructed according to the strictest rules
of science.
Should you, good-natured reader, be a botanist, I hope you
will find pleasure while looking at the flowers, the herbs, the
shrubs, and the trees, which I have represented ; the more so,
I imagine, if you have seen them in their native woods. Should
you not, the sight of them in my Illustrations may, for aught
I know, tempt you to go and partake of the hospitality of our
brethren the Aborigines of America.
Permit me now to address a few words to the Critic, who I
fervently hope is a good-natured reader too. This I do with
much deference. He has seen my Illustrations, and has judged
favourably of them ; he has passed his keen eye over this page ;
he knows the very moderate strength of my talents; and I
have only to add, with my compliments, that ever since I have
known that such a person as himself exists, I have laboured
harder, with more patience and with more care, to gain his good
will, indulgence, and support.
JOHN J. AUDUBON.
EDINBURGH,
March 1831.
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
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The Wild Turkey, Meleagris Gallopavo, . . 1
The Yellow-billed Cuckoo, . . . Coccyzus Americanus, . . 18
The Prothonotary Warbler, . . . Sylvia Protonotarius, . . 22
The Purple Finch, . . . . . . Fringilla purpurea, . . . 24
Bonaparte's Fly-catcher, . . . . Muscícapa Bonapartii, . . 27
THE OHIO, 29
The Wild Turkey. Female.. . . Meleagris Gallopavo . . 33
The Purple Grakle, or Common i , • .
1 I Quiscalus versicolor, . . . 35
Crow-Black-bird, . . . . j
The White-throated Sparrow, . . Fringilla pennsylvanica, . 42
Selby's Flycatcher, Muscícapa Selbii, . . . 46
The Brown Titlark, Anthus Spinoletta, . . . 49
THE GREAT PINE SWAMP,1, 52
The Bird of Washington, . . . . Falco Washingtonii, . . . 58
The Baltimore Oriole, Icterus Baltimore, . . . 66
The Snow Bird, Fringilla hyemalis, • . . 72
The Prairie Warbler, Sylvia discolor, . . . . 76
The Blue Yellow-backed Warbler,. Sylvia americana, . . . 78
THE PRAIRIE, 81
The Great-footed Hawk, . . . . Falco peregrinus, . . . . 85
The Carolina Turtle Dove, . . . Columba carolinensis, . . 91
Bewick's Wren, . Troglodytes Bewickii, . . 96
The Louisiana Water Thrush, . . Turdits ludovicianus, . . 99
The Blue-winged Yellow Warbler, Sylvia solitaria, . . . . 102
THE REGULATORS, ios