116 Thayer, Avduboniana. lADrii 



I April 



Breadth 27^ inches 

 Tail feathers 16 inches 

 French name 



Louisiana Gademe 



Golden Eye 



Plate V. 



Longueur total 26 pouces 



Pesa (?) 3 lb. 13 onze 



Ano (?) gure 36 p«^ (?) 



J'Enleve avec beaucoup de Deficulte 



de I'eau ou il naga tres profond. — 



Chute de L'Ohio 17 December 1809. J. A. 



No. 144 



64 Malaga Shell Drake. Goosander. 



Mergus Merganser A. W. 



Plate VL 



Golden Crested Wren A. W. 



Sylvia Regulus 



154 Shippingport, Kentucky 



Jan'y 28, 1820. 



drawn by J. J. Audubon 



Mistletoe on Black Walnut 



This last is the most beautiful of all the original Audubon drawings 

 that I have. 



Parkman's Wren was one of the species discovered by J. K. Town- 

 send on the Columbia River and Audubon describes it in Vol. V of 

 the 'Ornithological Biography' p. 310, among "Species found in 

 North America but not figured in the ' Birds of America.' " He 

 states that Townsend secured but a single specimen and adds at 

 the end of his account 



"Feeling perfectly confident that this species is distinct from 

 any other, and not finding it anywhere described, I have named it 

 after my most kind, generous, and highly talented friend, George 

 Parkman, Esq. M. D. of Boston, as an indication of the esteem in 



