AUDUBON AND HIS JOURNALS BY MARIA R. AUDUBON WITH ZOÖLOGICAL AND OTHER NOTES BY ELLIOTT COUES Volume I. NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS 1897 Copyright, 1897 , By Charles Scribner's Sons . University Press: John Wilson and Son Cambridge, U.S.A. In Loving Memory OF MY FATHER, JOHN WOODHOUSE AUDUBON, AND OF HIS LOVE AND ADMIRATION FOR HIS FATHER, JOHN JAMES AUDUBON, THIS BOOK WAS WRITTEN....

I t is customary at the close of a Preface to make some acknowledgment of the services rendered by others in the preparation of a volume; but in my case this aid has been so generous, so abundant, and so helpful, that I must reverse the order of things and begin by saying that my heartiest thanks are due to the many who have assisted me in a work which for many years has been my dream. Without the very material aid, both by pen and advice, of Dr. Elliott Coues, these pages would have lost more t

I n the brief biography of Audubon which follows, I have given, I believe, the only correct account that has been written, and as such I present it. I am not competent to give an opinion as to the merits of his work, nor is it necessary. His place as naturalist, woodsman, artist, author, has long since been accorded him, and he himself says: "My enemies have been few, and my friends numerous." I have tried only to put Audubon the man before my readers, and in his own words so far as possible, th

T he village of Mandeville in the parish of St. Tammany, Louisiana, is about twenty miles from New Orleans on the north shore of Lake Ponchartrain. Here, on the plantation of the same name, owned by the Marquis de Mandeville de Marigny, John James Laforest Audubon [1] was born, the Marquis having lent his home, in the generous southern fashion, to his friend Admiral Jean Audubon, who, with his Spanish Creole wife, lived here some months. In the same house, towards the close of the last century,

1826-1829 THE EUROPEAN JOURNALS 1826-1829 O N the 26th April , 1826, I left my beloved wife Lucy Audubon, and my son John Woodhouse with our friends the Percys at Bayou Sara. I remained at Doctor Pope's at St. Francisville till Wednesday at four o'clock p. m. , when I took the steamboat "Red River," Captain Kemble, for New Orleans, which city I reached at noon on Wednesday, 27th. Visited many vessels for my passage to England, and concluded to go in the ship "Delos" of Kennebunk, Captain Joseph

1833 INTRODUCTION T HE Labrador trip, long contemplated, was made with the usual object, that of procuring birds and making the drawings of them for the continuation of the "Birds of America," the publication of which was being carried on by the Havells, under the supervision of Victor, the elder son, who was in London at this time. To him Audubon writes from Eastport, Maine, under date of May 31, 1833:— "We are on the eve of our departure for the coast of Labrador. Our party consists of young D

EMBERIZA TOWNSENDII, TOWNSEND'S BUNTING. (Now Spiza townsendii.) FROM AN UNFINISHED DRAWING BY J. J. AUDUBON OF THE ONLY SPECIMEN EVER KNOWN, SHOT MAY 11, 1833. IN CHESTER CO., PA., BY J. K. TOWNSEND. AUDUBON AND HIS JOURNALS BY MARIA R. AUDUBON WITH ZOÖLOGICAL AND OTHER NOTES BY ELLIOTT COUES ILLUSTRATED Volume II. NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS 1897 Copyright, 1897 , By Charles Scribner's Sons . University Press: John Wilson and Son Cambridge, U.S.A. Volume II...

June 4, Sunday. We have run pretty well, though the wind has been tolerably high; the country we have passed this day is somewhat better than what we saw yesterday, which, as I said, was the poorest we have seen. No occurrence of interest has taken place. We passed this morning the old Riccaree [1] Village, where General Ashley [2] was so completely beaten as to lose eighteen of his men, with the very weapons and ammunition that he had trafficked with the Indians of that village, against all the

EPISODES [46] These Episodes were introduced in the letterpress of the first three volumes of the "Ornithological Biographies," but are not in the octavo edition of the "Birds of America," and I believe no entire reprint of them has been made before. So far as possible they have been arranged chronologically. EPISODES LOUISVILLE IN KENTUCKY L ouisville in Kentucky has always been a favorite place of mine. The beauty of its situation on the banks of La Belle Rivière , just at the commencement of