360 General Notes. [fife 



In almost every instance the Orchard Orioles would pluck a whole 

 berry and then hold it under one foot and eat it piecemeal. Indigo Bunt- 

 ings seemed very partial to a white variety of berry and paid little atten- 

 tion to the others. It is perhaps worthy of note that at the time these 

 observations were made dewberries were ripening in great profusion along 

 almost every hedgerow. — Ernest G. Holt, Biological Survey, Washington, 

 D. C. 



An American Edition of Audubon's 'Ornithological Biography.' — 



In a recent bibliographical memoir of Audubon's work, 1 Doctor Stone 

 included the American (Philadelphia, 1831) edition of volume one of the 

 ' Ornithological Biography,' also mentioning that there was said to be 

 another American edition of the same volume, dated 1832, and referring 

 in a foot-note to Loomis' description 2 of a copy of this edition. Loomis 

 states that this edition, which bore the imprint Judah Dobson, Agent, 

 and H. H. Porter, is " wholly distinct so far as typographical features are 

 concerned " from the Edinburgh edition and mentions, casually, the exist- 

 ence of an edition of the same year (1832) with the imprint of E. L. Carey 

 and A. Hart, Philadelphia, which, apparently he had not seen, or had not 

 at hand, as his statement that it is " the Edinburgh edition with the Phila- 

 delphia title-page " is misleading. 



A copy of the E. L. Carey and A. Hart, 1832, Philadelphia edition is now 

 before me. Like Loomis' copy it is wholly distinct typographically from 

 the Edinburgh edition, but typographically similar to the Dobson and 

 Porter, Philadelphia, 1831, edition, except the imprint of the title. A com- 

 parison of these two American editions of volume one, at hand, with the 

 Edinburgh edition of volume one, seems to show that the first two were 

 printed from the same setting of type, corresponding line for line through- 

 out, all peculiarities of any given letter or alignment being the same. In 

 this respect they differ from the Edinburgh edition, the minor differ- 

 ences in the spacing of letters or words alone making it clearly evident, 

 where gross differences are wanting, that the work is of another setting of 

 type. 



So far as I am aware, the imprints on these two American editions of 

 volume one have not been given. That of the Dobson and Porter, 1831, 

 edition is as follows: — Philadelphia: (which is in black-letter) | Judah 

 Dobson, Agent, 108 Chestnut Street; | and | H. H. Porter, Literary Rooms, 

 121 Chestnut Street. | MDCCCXXXI. 



The imprint on the title of the Carey and Hart, 1832, edition is as fol- 

 lows: — Philadelphia: (which is in black-letter) | E. L. Carey and A. 

 Hart — Chesnut Street. | MDCCCXXXII. In this edition Chestnut 

 Street is incorrectly spelled, as given. 



1 Witmer Stone. A Bibliography and Nomenclator of the Ornithological Works of JohD 

 James Audubon. ' The Auk,' XXIII, 1906, pp. 298-312. 



2 Leverett M. Loomis. A Forgotten Volume. ' The Auk,' VIII, 1891, p. 230. 



