AUDUBON JOURNAL 



Office — Saw to Day Many Crows Mergansers and 

 Geese, some Dun Divers — and a Large flock of My 

 unknown Divers — 



the Blue Jeays are now & then seen — the great 

 Carolina Wrens are very Aboundant — but the Snow 

 Birds have disappeared, the weather is so Warm that 

 Buterflies, Bats, Bees, & Many Insects are flying about 

 us and at the Arkansa I was assured that they had 

 had but Two Light frosts — 



M'^ Shaw is Expected Tomorrow Night and per- 

 haps Will Leave us here to Proceed up that River, for 

 we are told the Orleans Market is Extremely dull — 

 Killed a Gull precisely Such as I shot at J^ew Port 

 Kentucky, rather Fatter 



The Wild Geese we now Shoot have Eggs swollen 

 to the size of N'* 3 Britt Shots — 



An Indian Chief at the Mouth of the Arkansas 

 Killed Three Swans one of which I was told Measured 

 9 feet from Tip to Tip — Those Indians had Left when 

 We arrived, — a View of Such Noble Specimen Would 

 have been very agreable — 



The Prairie Hawk that I see here is not the Marsh 

 Hawk of Willson it is Much Less-Lighter Color, the 

 Tip of the Wings Black and only One Large Bend of 

 Dark ending the Tail— they fly Much Like the Night 

 Hawk and Catch Small Birds on the Grass Without 

 Stopping their course — 



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