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you should have perceived the "South Southerly" about you, this 

 is, however, no more than an accident, that you should have met 

 with the Golden Eye is not at all strange, as that species occupies 

 at different periods almost any stream of the Union. 



I cannot at present tell you when I may have the pleasure of 

 meeting with you at your own domicile, and yet this may happen 

 quite unexpectedly. 



Do you not pay attention to the quadrupeds around you? If 

 not, I wish you would! — and moreover I should be highly pleased 

 to hear of your procuring for us all such as may be found in your 

 vicinity. You have Bats, Wood Rats, & Mice, Weasels, &c, &c, 

 all of which I should like to possess specimens at your hands. 

 Could you not save all that you come across with in this way, 

 place them in common good Rum, and forward them to me at once 

 or as soon as you have some 2 or three species. I will most cheer- 

 fully pay all expenses to Philadelphia addressed to J. B. Chevalier, 

 No. 70 Dock Street. 



I am now as anxious about the publication of the Quadrupeds 

 as I ever was in the procuring of our Birds, indeed my present 

 interest in Zoology is altogether bent toward the Completion of 

 this department of Natural Science. 



Do please write to me often as I am always glad to hear from 

 you, and when I am somewhat slow in answering your letters, be 

 assured that it is altogether on a/c of the excess of Labour that I 

 have to go through. 



Believe me with sincere good wishes 

 Your friend and servant, 



John J. Audubon. 

 (To be continued.) 



