Plate CXII
Bluebird,
SYLVIA SIALIS,
Male 1. Female 2. Young 3.
Great Mullein, Verbascum Thapsus.
Drawn from nature by J.J. Audubon F.R.S. F.L.S. Engraved, Printed & Coloured by R. Havell, London 1834.
William Swainson to Audubon
Saturday 7 August 1830.
My Dear Mr. Audubon
as you was on the point of leaving London, when you wrote your last letter, I did not reply to it. This will probably find you returned from your excursion, and I hope with every success, on the score of increased subscribers, that you had anticipated, If you will be so good as send me your specimens of the Woodpeckers to Havell's, I shall be very glad to see them, and they shall be returned to you after examination with the Arctic ones. You will assist me very much by any Duplicates you can spare me, I particularly want a pair of the Ivory billed Woodpecker, the No Am: Parrots. Summer red birds and the Painted Buntlings also the Pinecreeping Warbler. m & fem.
I do not expect that these most wonderful events in France will deter you from going, seeing that everything is now quiet. The french are certainly a great nation. I never had such an opinion of them as I now have.
I suppose you will be at the Dinner to Cuvier on Tuesday, when you will no doubt hear complements passing about, and a long speech from Mr Vigors. I have neither time nor health for such things.