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INTELLIGENCE AND MISCELLANIES. 
Domestic anp Foreren. 
1. Report of a committee appointed by the Lyceum of Nat- 
ural History af New York to examine the splendid work 
of Mr. Audubon upon the Birds of North America, May, 
1829. 
It is almost five years since our associate Mr. Audubon 
exhibited his rich port-folio of nearly four hundred original 
drawings of American Birds, at a meeting of this Lyceum— 
Having afterwards carried his collection to Europe, the pub- 
lication of them has been commenced in London, and the | 
first volume, embracing forty nine species, is now submitted 
to the inspection of our society; and it will hardly be denied 
that it forms the most magnificent work of its kind ever exe- 
cuted in any country. 
Every species is represented of the natural size, the Wild 
Turkey and the largest Eagles appearing in their full dimen- 
sions, the size of these regulating that of all the other plates. 
When the birds are too small to occupy so large a sheet, it 
is filled up either by giving several figures of the same spe- 
cies of different sex or age, or by introducing the plants on 
which the bird is usually found, and in most instances by 
both these embellishments. In others are represented Quad- 
