"THE BIRDS OF AMERICA" 391 



Quadrupeds of North America, — By J. J. Audubon and 

 Rev. John Bachman. Original Edition, 3 vols, imperial folio, 

 bound in half russia. One hundred and fifty superbly colored 

 Plates. With descriptive letter-press, in 3 vols., royal 8vo. 

 Price £63. The same work, — Library Edition, 3 vols, royal 

 8vo. with one hundred and fifty-five finely colored Plates. 

 Price £9, 9s. 



Note by the Author. For the citation of this rare document, from the 

 only copy known to exist, I am indebted to the kindness of Mr. Ruthven 

 Deane, who writes: "I found this Prospectus bound in the first volume of 

 The Ibis (1859). This copy was previously in possession of the late Pierre 

 Verreaux, of Paris, France, and is now in the John Crerar Library, Chicago, 

 Illinois." 



Ornithologists will be pleased to find that it immediately sets at rest 

 numerous disputed questions concerning the plates and text of this sole, but 

 ill-fated, attempt at the republication of the original folio of The Birds of 

 America in America. (See Bibliography, Nos. 9 and 10, and Chapter 

 XXXVI, p. 296.) 



Mr. Ruthven Deane has written me that an examination of the account 

 books kept by the Audubons during the publication of the large and small 

 editions of The Birds of America showed partial payments on the Folio by 

 23 subscribers; the only name among those not listed in the Ornithological 

 Biography was that of J. R. Peters, who was credited with a payment of 

 $412.00. Mr. Deane adds: "I have a list of the subscribers to the 1840, 

 8vo., edition, of 1,095 names, New York, Baltimore and Boston taking 501 ; 

 also a list of subscribers to the Quadrupeds of North America, 3 volume, 

 8 vo., edition, of 2,004 names, New York, Boston and Charleston, South 

 Carolina, taking 1,102." 



