AUDUBON JOURNAL 



to know my Fate — I am confortably situated and 

 would be sorry to be obliged to part with them — the 

 Weather Milde & Cloudy— Caught No Fish Last 

 night — 



Thursday Oct/ — 19th 1820 



Cap" Cummings M^ Aumack and Joseph after a 

 Long Walk return to Dinner with only 7 Partridges 

 and I Pheasant — M^ Shaw Shot i Pheasant — I fin- 

 ished my Drawing of the Common Crow and after 

 Dinner Went a Shore with the Company — saw Many 

 Cedar Birds killed a Young Blackburnian Warbler— 

 a Young Carolina Cuckow so much reduce by the 

 Hard Weather that he could scarcely fly— killed 5 

 pheasants 14 Partridges i Squirel and 3 Turkeys, Shot 

 at once by Joseph who was not a little proud when he 

 heard 3 C hears given him from the Boats this was his 

 first essay on Turkeys — 



[in the] While absent the boats having put too to 

 make Sweeps, a flock of Turkeys came among* them 

 and in tring to kill some with Aumack's pistols one 

 was bustted and the other wounded Joseph's Scull 

 pretty severely — saw an astonishing number of Gray 

 Squirels— the Country being extremely hilly opposite 

 Wells Point the hunting Was Laborious and fatiguing. 



The Stomack of the Cuckoo Contained 2 entire 

 Grass Hopers one Large Green Kid diddid and the 

 remainder of remains of Diferents colopterous Insects. 



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