THE 



WILSON BULLETIN 



NO. 70. 



A QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF ORNITHOLOGY 



VOL. XXII MARCH, 1910. NO. I 



OLD SERIES VOL. XXII. NEW SERIES VOL. XVII. 



AN HITHERTO UNPUBLISHED PAINTING BY 

 AUDUBON. 



BY R. W. SHUFELDT, M.D. 



It was during the month of Alay, 1895, that the writer had 

 occasion to visit the late Mrs. John Woodhouse Audubon, the 

 widow of a son or John James Audubon, the ornithologist. 

 The home of this venerable old lady was at Salem, Washing- 

 ton County, in the State of New York, and during the week 

 or more of my visit, permission was given me by the eldest 

 daughter of the family to photograph a number of the old 

 Audubon paintings, and other objects of interest, with the 

 view of some day giving published descriptions of them for 

 permanent preservation in literature. 



At the time mentioned, some thirty or forty negatives were 

 made by me of various subjects, and this valuable series still 

 forms a part of my private collection. Among them is an ex- 

 cellent colored drawing of the common European jay (Gar- 

 rnlus glandarius) by John Woodhouse Audubon, published by 

 me a number of years ago. but the reproduction was so much 

 reduced and so indifferently done, that it is just possible it 

 may have sufficient historical interest, to warrant its publica- 

 tion again in some other connection. Very few examples of 

 the kind, by this son of Audubon's, have ever been given to the 

 world, and, indeed, being a man of very erratic habits, he very 

 rarely finished the drawing and painting of a bird he ever 



