[26] Originally published by Ruthven Deane ([Bibl. No. 48]), The Auk, vol. xxii, 1905.
[27] Alexander Gordon, who married Ann Bakewell, youngest sister of Mrs. Audubon. For notice of Jos. B. Kidd, mentioned below, see [Vol. I, p. 446].
[28] Originally published by George Bird Grinnell ([Bibl. No. 54]), The Auk, vol. xxxiii, 1916.
[29] See [Chapter XXIX, p. 118], and the letter which Audubon wrote to Bonaparte at this time.
[30] Most readers will doubtless recall that Dr. George Parkman was the victim of an almost unbelievable tragedy in 1849, when he met his death at the hands of a colleague; the entire country was then aroused as it seldom had been by an event in the annals of crime.
[31] In 1897 Mr. Joseph Coolidge, who was then living in San Francisco, was the sole survivor of this expedition; see Maria R. Audubon, Audubon and his Journals ([Bibl. No. 86]), vol. i, p. 347.
[32] Dr. George Cheyne Shattuck, like his father a philanthropist, and an ardent patron of all good works, in 1855 planted a seed on the rocky soil of New Hampshire which has since shown a marvelous vitality; to him primarily, and to the revered schoolmasters, the Reverend Dr. Henry Augustus Coit and the Reverend Dr. Joseph Rowland Coit, the world owes that great foundation, St. Paul's School.
[33] Maria R. Audubon, [op. cit.], vol. i, p. 346.
[34] See "The Eggers of Labrador," Ornithological Biography ([Bibl. No. 2]), vol. iii, p. 82.
[35] Lincoln's Finch, Fringella lincolnii, now Melospiza lincolni.