AUDUBON JOURNAL 



May Speak More of the Likeness as the occasion 

 Will require — 



Saw Many Green Baked White Belied Swallows to 

 day and Also four Martins Hiroundo Purpurea — All 

 of them very Lively and not exibiting much of the 

 Muddy Appearance that immersion in the Swamps 

 about this City would undoutedly give them, [if 

 they] had they remained buried in it since Last De- 

 cember at Which time late in that Month they were 

 plenty and remarked passing by [and] ariving from 

 North & East [Courses (?)] moving South Weswardly 

 —here they Must Make a Long Pause or Move East- 

 wardly very Slowly as Seldom do they arrive in Penn- 

 sylvania before the 25 of [April] March and more fre- 

 quently in the first days of [May] April— they find 

 nowhere an abondance of Insects, and the Milhons of 

 Musquitoes that raise from the Swamps Would Sufice 

 to feed the Swallows of all the World — 



Saw Many Brown Larks. 



the Fish Crows are remarkably fond of ahghting in 

 flocks on some Paean trees about 12 Mile below this 

 City about 9 o'clock in the Morning when they retire 

 on these to rest from their Fishing excursions and 

 remain Croaking untill the Midle of the day— 



Thursday New Orleans February 22d 1821 

 We at Last have the Keel Boat oflT and have moved 

 on the hearth again— Our present situation is quite a 



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