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on the 14th of May, 1803, and in 1804 accompanied his father 

 into Italy, and was with him in 1810 on board the vessel in which 

 he made his unsuccessful attempt to proceed to America. Being 

 taken prisoners on their passage by an English cruiser, Lucien 

 and his family were brought to this country, where they passed 

 several years in the neighbourhood of Ludlow, where the young 

 Charles first betrayed that taste for natural history by which he 

 was afterwards so eminently distinguished. After the conclusion 

 of the peace of 1814, Lucien returned to Italy, and acquired by 

 purchase from the Apostolic Chamber the principality of Canino, 

 in the neighbourhood of Yiterbo, while his son Charles took the 

 title of Prince of Musignano. Residing at Eome for the next 

 seven years, the young Prince devoted himself with great ardour 

 to the study of natural history, successively taking up plants, 

 insects, and vertebrated animals, and finally attaching himself 

 especially to the class of Birds, which continued through life to be 

 his favourite study. In 1822 he married, at Brussels, his cousin 

 Zenaide, the eldest and only surviving daughter of his imcle, 

 Joseph Bonaparte, who was then residing, under the title of 

 Count de Survilliers, in the United States, whither Charles Lucien 

 also soon after proceeded with his youthful bride, and took up his 

 residence in the neighbourhood of his father-in-law. Here, in 

 1824, he published the first volume of his continuation of "Wilson's 



* American Ornithology,' which was followed by two other volumes 

 m 1828, and by a fourth in 1833. This important work, together 

 with the " Grenera of North American Birds," published in the 



* Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York,' in 

 1826 and 1827, at once established his reputation as a systematic 

 zoologist, and gave evident proof both of his extensive knowledge 

 of the subject, and of the unwearied industry with which he pur- 

 sued it. In 1827 he came to England, and was elected, at the early 

 age of 24, a Foreign Member of the Linnean Society. On his 

 return to Eome in the following year, he commenced the forma- 

 tion of a spendid zoological cabinet, and soon after issued the first 

 numbers of a magnificent work entitled " Iconografia della Eauna 

 Italica per le quattro classi degli Animali Vertebrati," three vols. 

 4to, Eome, 1832-42, which forms unquestionably the most com- 

 plete and elaborate work that is extant on the Vertebrated Eauna 

 of any country in the world. In 1837 he again visited England, 

 and communicated to our Society "A new Systematic Arrange- 

 ment of Vertebrated Animals," which was published in the eigh- 

 teenth volume of our ' Transactions,' and contained many valuable 



