AUDUBON JOURNAL 



as if thinking all Must answer his Wishes when hungry 

 — he flew at liberty about the Place, caught Grass- 

 hopers with great ease and Would Catch in the Air 

 any of the unfortunate Small birds Killed in our dayly 

 walks when thrown toward him for food — he regularly 

 refused all putrid flesh, Never Would touch [a] Wood- 

 peckers, but dearly received Bats & Mice — he had 

 grown handsome from an apparent parcel of Moving 

 Cotton — sailed with the Wild Birds of his Species, re- 

 turning every Night to the Inner upper part of a Sash 

 in M"" P.'s Room — he seldom made use of the Note of 

 the Old Birds but allmost constantly uttered his Cree, 

 Cree, Cree — 



Our Orchard Oriole I gave Liberty to seing that 

 the Departure of every number of his tribe, had ren- 

 dered him melancholy to excess; I have No doubt 

 that that specie could be Kept in cages Without much 

 trouble, and its Sprightly Songs certainly would well 

 repay for the care employed to furnish them with food 

 & Drink- 

 August 4*^ 1 82 1 — Saturday 



Louisianna Warbler. Sylvia Ludovicianna. I Shot 

 this morning the same Bird or one of the same Kind 

 that I pursued yesterday [with such anxiety] so eagerly 

 and then without success — and Was Much pleased to 

 discover in it a New Species — during My Chase of yes- 

 terday it flew briskly from one tree or small bush to an- 



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