AUDUBON JOURNAL 



ber of Strangers, Opend a Letter directed to Your 

 Mother by Your Uncle W""" B — Mr [ — ] Aumack 

 Killed a Young Malard Duck — the Contents of the [ — ] 

 Gizard of one of the 4 Grebes I open was Nothing else 

 than a solid mass of fine hair apparently belonging to 

 some very Small quadrupeds — (feathers) 



Saw a Chimney Swallow; the Number of Ducks 

 Increasing — and an Appearance of a Cold Nights — 

 Killed a Great Carolina Wren the Grebes were cooked 

 and eat but extremely Fishy rancid and fat — 



at 10 'oclock We were roused from sound sleep by 

 the Boats having ran on Rocks — the hands had to go 

 in the Watter to take them off, it was cold and Windy — 



Monday Oct i6th 1820 



the frost much as yesterday; Turkey, being heard 

 close by we took a walk after them unsuccessfully, they 

 answered to my calls but kept off — 



I did not feel well; took some Medicine and Drew 

 the Hermit Thrush Turdus Solitarius that I killed yester- 

 day — this Bird can easily be known from the Turdus 

 Auracapillus being about ^ Larger, and from the 

 Tawny Thrush, by Looking at the inner part of its 

 Wings which exhibit a handsome light Band of Buff — 

 its stomach contained the remains of insects and the 

 Seed of the Winter Grape — was very fat and [and] 

 delicate eating — these Birds are scarce and not gen- 

 erally known their note a plaintive soft one — Seldom 



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