[280] See Ruthven Deane ([Bibl. No. 41]), The Auk, vol. xxi, pp. 334-338.
[281] "Natchez in 1820" and "The Lost Portfolio," Ornithological Biography ([Bibl. No. 2]), vol. iii, pp. 529 and 564.
[282] The original of this admirable drawing had been shot at New Madrid, on the Ohio, on November 23, and Audubon, who immediately began to work on it, recorded his conviction that the White-headed or Bald Eagle and the "Brown Eagle," which he later called "The Bird of Washington," were two different species; he thought that the young of the former, which was also brown, was much smaller in size. See [Vol. I, p. 241].
[283] These drawings were as follows:
- "Common gallinule; Not described by Willson;
- Common gull; Not described by Willson;
- Marsh hawk;
- Boat tailed grackle; Not described by Willson;
- Common Crow;
- Fish Crow;
- Rail or Sora;
- Marsh Tern;
- Snipe; Not described by Willson;
- Hermit Thrush;
- Yellow Red poll Warbler;
- Savannah Finch;
- Bath Ground Warbler; Not described by Willson;
- Brown Pelican; Not described by Willson;
- Great Footed Hawk;
- Turkey Hen; Not described by Willson;
- Cormorant;
- Carrion Crow or Black Vulture;
- Imber Diver;
- White Headed or Bald Eagle."
[284] Vanderlyn, like Audubon, had been a pupil of David at Paris; he produced historical paintings of merit, as well as panoramas, then coming into vogue; some of the latter were exhibited in the "Rotunda" which he erected for that purpose in City Hall Park, New York, but this enterprise failed, and his building was seized by the city for debt. Vanderlyn died in absolute want in 1852. See Samuel Isham, The History of American Painting (New York, 1915).
[285] "Bayou," in Louisiana, is a term commonly applied to any slow-running stream. According to the tradition gathered on the spot by Mr. Stanley C. Arthur, both stream and settlement were formerly called "New Valentia," while the present name was derived from an old woman called "Sara," who many years ago lived at the mouth of the Bayou, where she practiced some sort of spurious physic. St. Francisville, on the hill, received its name from the circumstance that the brothers of St. Francis, who had a mission at Pointe Coupée, on the opposite bank, were in the habit of ferrying their dead over the river, in order to bury them on the high ground; "Bayou Sara" and "St. Francisville" are used interchangeably by the inhabitants. See S. C. Arthur ([Bibl. No. 230]), Times-Picayune, New Orleans, August 6, 1916.
[286] On the original drawing of the Pine-creeping Warbler, The Birds of America (Plate cxl), the following legends appear in Audubon's autograph: "Drawn from Nature by John J. Audubon, James Pirrie's Plantation, Louisiana, July 10, 1821. Plant, J. R. Mason."
Sixteen of Audubon's originals, which still bear the designations of time and place, were produced during this interval, in the year 1821; they embrace the Mississippi Kite (Plate cxvii, see [Vol. I, p. 228]), June 28; Yellow-throated Vireo (Plate cxix), July 11; Red-cockaded Woodpecker (Plate ccclxxxix), July 29; American Redstart (Plate xl), August 13; Summer Red-bird (Plate xliv), August 27; Prairie Warbler (Plate xiv), Sept. 3; and the Tennessee Warbler (Plate cliv), Oct. 17.
[287] The Birds of America, Plate xxi.