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Audubon[Frontispiece]
From the portrait by J. W. Audubon, November, 1843.
Mill Grove Mansion on the Perkiomen Creek[16]
From a photograph from W. H. Wetherill, Esq.
Fatland Ford Mansion, looking toward Valley Forge[20]
From a photograph from W. H. Wetherill, Esq.
Audubon's Mill at Henderson, Ky.[34]
Now owned by Mr. David Clark.
John J. Audubon[48]
From the miniature by F. Cruikshank, published by Robert Havell,January 12, 1835.
Mrs. Audubon[64]
From the miniature by F. Cruikshank, 1835.
Audubon[74]
Date unknown. From a daguerreotype owned by M. Eliza Audubon.
Audubon Monument in Trinity Church Cemetery, NewYork[76]
Flycatchers. (Heretofore unpublished.)[114]
From a drawing made by Audubon in 1826, and presented to Mrs.Rathbone of Green Bank, Liverpool. Still in the possessionof the Rathbone family.
From a Pencil Sketch of Audubon[128]
Drawn by himself for Mrs. Rathbone. Now in the possession ofMr. Richard R. Rathbone, Glan-y-Menai, Anglesey.
Audubon in Indian Dress[132]
From a pencil sketch drawn by himself for Miss Rathbone, 1826.Now in the possession of Mrs. Abraham Dixon (née Rathbone),London, England.
Audubon[206]
From the portrait by Henry Inman. Now in the possession of the family.
Facsimile of Entry in Journal[221]
Eagle and Lamb[342]
Painted by Audubon, London, 1828. In the possession of the family.
Audubon[348]
From the portrait by George P. A. Healy, London, 1838. Now inthe possession of the Boston Society of Natural History.
Victor Gifford Audubon[384]
From the miniature by F. Cruikshank, 1838.
John Woodhouse Audubon[412]
From the miniature by F. Cruikshank, 1838.
Audubon[454]
From the portrait by John Woodhouse Audubon (about 1841).
Columba passerina (now Columbigallina passerinaterrestris), Ground Dove[474]
From the unpublished drawing by J. J. Audubon, 1838.
Facsimile of a Page of the Missouri River Journal[510]
Reduced one third.
View on the Missouri River, above Great Bend[516]
From a water-color drawing by Isaac Sprague.
Indian Hatchet Pipe[532]
Carried by Audubon during many of his journeys.

AUDUBON

INTRODUCTION

In 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, that they may know what he was, not what others thought he was.

M. R. A.

AUDUBON

The 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, Louis Philippe found refuge for a time with the ever hospitable Marigny family, and he named the beautiful plantation home "Fontainebleau." Since then changes innumerable have come, the estate has other owners, the house has gone, those who once dwelt there are long dead, their descendants scattered, the old landmarks obliterated.