AUDUBON JOURNAL 



with Many Minute Eggs how Rare this bird is I Need 

 Not Say being the Only specimen I Ever have Met 

 with — ahhough I once before found some Tail feathers 

 of another Killed by a Squatter on the Ohio— Which 

 Tail feathers having Kept— Corespond exactly With 

 those of the present bird — 



Regret Much that I Cannot Save the Skin but the 

 Weather being Warm and My Drawing having taken 

 Nearly Two Days it was not possible to skin it — 



Monday 3*^ 



Gave Lesson to E. Pamar at M" Brand and Miss 

 Delfosse — saw M'^ Wheeler who arrived this day — 

 how httle I Expected to have Ever Met with him 

 — Weather quite Warm — 



Tuesday 4 



Gave Lessons to M" Brand at Miss Delfosse also 

 Rec^ 40$ from the former and paid the rent of the 

 house in Dauphine Street Weather very Warm drew 

 an American Bitern — 



Nev^^ Orleans Decemb'" 5''' 1821 



i quire of Paper to Miss Josephine 



Wednesday — Gave Lessons at M" Brands and Miss 

 Delfosse — Weather Cool and Rainy — Visited Bas- 

 terop and Was Introduced to M^ Sell another of the 

 Trade — another day of Disapointment My Lucy Not 



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