Audubon and His Journals, Volume 1

by John James Audubon

[232] The Purple or Rock Sandpiper, Tringa (Arquatella) maritima.—E. C.

[233] Not Ereunetes pusillus, but the Least Sandpiper, Tringa (Actodromas) minutilla, which appears as Tringa pusilla in Audubon's works.—E. C.

[234] This is the bird figured by Audubon as Falco labradora on folio pl. 196, 8vo pl. 19, but which he afterward considered to be the same as his F. islandicus. It is now held, however, to represent a dark variety of Gyrfalcon, known as F. gyrfalco obsoletus, confined to Labrador and thence southward in winter to New England and New York.—E. C.

[235] Sheep laurel.

[236] See Episode, "A Ball in Newfoundland."

[237] Dr. George Parkman, of Boston, who was murdered by Professor J. W. Webster in Boston, November 23, 1849.

[238] See Episode, "The Bay of Fundy."

[239] A fallen tree that rests on the root end at the bottom of a stream or river, and sways up or down with the current.

[240] See Episode "Great Pine Swamp."

[241] The celebrated taxidermist. Born Sparkhill, New York, July 12, 1812, died at the same place, October, 1879.