Vol. XXI 

 1904 



~| Dkane, Ujipubliihed Extracts from Audubon' s Journal. 337 



Mocking Birds, Orchard Orioles, Painted Buntings, Maryland 

 Yellow-throats, Marsh Wrens, Water Crake, White-crowned Bunt- 

 ings, Indigo Buntings, Scarlet Tanagers, Turtle Doves, Tell-tale 

 Godwits, Solitary Snipes, Bartram Snipes, Comorants, Sprig-tail 

 Ducks, Purple Grackles, Blue Yellow-backed Warblers, Cardi- 

 nal Grosbeaks, Yellow-billed Cuckoos, Large-crested Flycatchers, 

 White-eyed Flycatchers, Nighthawks, Turkey Buzzards, Carrion 

 Crows, Common Gulls, Carolina Wrens, Partridges, Cliff Swallow, 

 Barn Swallow, Green-blue Swallow,^ White-bellied Swallow, Bank 

 Swallow, besides a species of Heron new to me, and to all the 

 hunters here. I killed it near Lake Barataria. I have drawn it 

 in an awkward position. 



Aug. 2ist, 1821. Watched all night by the dead body of a 

 friend of Mrs. Percy ^; he was not known to me and had literally 

 drunk himself to an everlasting sleep. Peace to his soul. I made 

 a good sketch of his head as a present for his poor wife. On 

 such occasions time flies very slow indeed, so much so that it 

 looked as if it stood still, like the Hawk that poises over its prey. 



Nov. 2nd, 1821. Finished my drawings of the Crested Hawk,3 

 which proved a female. How rare the bird is I may not say be- 

 ing the only specimen I have ever seen, though I once before 

 found some tail feathers of another killed by a squatter on the 

 Ohio, which tail feathers having been kept compared exactly with 

 these of the present bird. 



Nov. loth, 1821. Continue my close application to my orni- 

 thology, writing every day from morning until night, omitting no 

 observation, correcting, re-arranging from my notes and measure- 

 ments, and posting up ; particularly all my land birds. The great 

 many errors I found in the work of Wilson astonished me. I try 

 to speak of them with care, and as seldom as possible, knowing 



1 In 'Birds of America,' 8vo, Vol. I, 1840, p. 176, we read "Green-blue 

 or White-bellied Swallow, Hirimdo viridis, Wils. Amer. Orn. Vol. Ill, p. 44-" 

 This shows that Audubon knew that these names referred to the same spe- 

 cies and the enumerating of both in this Hst was evidently unintentional, 

 though written at an earlier date. 



- Mrs. Charles Percy of Bayou Sara, Louisiana, in whose home Audubon's 

 wife lived while he was abroad from 1826 to 1830. 



^ No previous mention of this Hawk is recorded in this Journal. 



