AUDUBON JOURNAL 



our Situation in this Boat is quite Comfortable — 

 We have a good Servant to wait on us, are served 

 with regular Meals, Clean and in Plates — ^Move much 

 faster than With Mess" Aumack & Lovelace, having 

 here 8 Roaers who dare not contradict orders — 



it rained and blowed hard a head, about One Mile 

 below Bayou Lafourche. We Came to — the weather did 

 not stop Joseph and Myself from taking a walk to the 

 Swamp back of Plantation in front of which the Boat 

 was moored — after Chasing the Note of What I sup- 

 posed a New Bird for a considerable time, I found 

 the deceiving Mocking Bird close by me and Exulting 

 with the Towe Bunting's cheep — Joseph was more 

 fortunate he Killed Two Warblers, one the Red Poll 

 (of this We saw about a dozen) the other I have Not 

 yet ascertained — although in Beautiful plumage; Both 

 Male — how Sweet for me to find Myself the i«* of 

 January in a Country where the woods are filled with 

 Warblers, Thrushes, and at the same time see the 

 Rivers and Lakes covered with all Kinds of Watter 

 Birds— 



the Pewees are quite gaily, I have seen this day 

 3 Cat Birds — if this is not the winter retreat of all our 

 Summer Birds it is at all Events that of very many — 

 how happy would I feel to see some future January 

 surrounded by the diferent species of Swallows Skeep- 

 ing about, with the Whippoorwill & Night Hawk 



— I drew the Likeness of M'^ Dickerson the Master 



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