LIST OF FULL-PAGE ILLUSTKATIONS 



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Frontispiece 



Something new almost daily would awaken their curi- 

 osity 



"The Bird of Washington"* . 



Mocking-birds defending their nests * 



Father and son painted together 



"The prairie dog hung on until I shook it off" 



Portrait and autograph of Audubon 



"A thousand dollars a copy !" 



Monument in Trinity Cemetery, Amsterdam Avenue, New York 



* After the original plate in Audubon's The Birds of America. 



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