AUDUBON JOURNAL 



Joseph & Mr Smith out hunting all day, brought a 

 few Red Breasted Thrushes, some Pewee fly Catchers 

 and Many Swamp Sparrows and Savanah Finches — 

 Complaining very Much of the Hardships of hunting 

 in the Cypress Swamps — Remarked in the Market 

 many Purple Galinules but all so Mangled that I could 

 not see one fit to draw — Saw also several Rails or 

 Soras 



Monday February 5th 1821 



Running about pretty much all day trying to pro- 

 cure some More Work and also Enquiring about 

 Willson's Ornithology, but in Vain — the high Value 

 set on that work now particularly Lately as rendered 

 it extremely rare, and the few who possess it will not 

 Lend it — the Weather extremely sultry and Damp 

 heavy Rains and thunder — saw to day at Mr Pamar, 

 where I often Breakfast or Dine Mr Delaroderie 



having been so extremely engaged the Two Days 

 that I Drew the Brown Pelican I had not time to make 

 such Memoranda as I wished — it was given me by 

 Mr Aumack, the Bird was Killed on a Lake in this 

 Vicinity and are rare — it was a Male, in tolerable 

 order — Mr Gordon who before he had seen My Draw- 

 ing thought it a Pelican Common in some of the West 

 Indies, was much pleased at finding it a diferent 

 Species — I was assured that these Birds were seen in 

 Immense flocks in the Neighbourhood o{ Buenos-Aires 



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