302 Stone, Ornithological Works of J. J. Audubon. [July 



Dr. Chas. W. Richmond sends me the following additional data 

 gathered from various sources, mainly by Dr. Coues. 



Part 1 appeared July, 1827. Plate 181 appeared by Feb. 1, 1834. 



" 4 " Nov., 1827. " 200 " " June 14, 1834. 



" 5 " Dec, 1827. " 301 " " April, 1836. 



" 12 " by March, 1829. " 390 " " Nov. 1, 1837. 

 " 17 " July, 1830. 



He also sends a copy of an advertisement in 'The Atheneum' 

 for January 6, 1838, containing the following: "The number of 

 perfect copies at present [Nov. 1, 1S37] subscribed for does not ex- 

 ceed 190, of which upward of 80 are subscribed for in America, and 

 the expense of getting them up is so great that not more than ten or 

 fifteen copies above the number subscribed for will be prepared." 



The plates were bound in four volumes, which are dated as fol- 

 lows on the title-pages: I (plates 1-100), 1827-1830; II (plates 

 101-200), 1831-1834; III (plates 201-300), 1834-1835; IIII 

 (plates 301-435), 1835-1838 June 20. It will be noted, however, 

 that these dates do not always correspond with the dates on the 

 plates. 



There is another edition of the Folio plates, "reissued by J. W. 

 Audubon" and dated on the title page 1S60, 1 published by Roe, 

 Lockwood & Son, New York. This is very inferior to the origi- 

 nal, the plates being reproduced by chromolithography by J. Bien, 

 180 Broadway, N. Y. There are apparently only 140 plates in this 

 edition; those that are numbered correspond to the plate numbers 

 in the octavo, but there are additional numbers which may indi- 

 cate that this edition was published in parts; for instance, the 

 Crossbill, "plate 200," is also marked No. 11-4. Some of these 

 plates are dated 1859 and some I860. The nomenclature seems 

 to be the same as in the Havell folio. 



On the 435 plates of the original edition there are represented 

 489 supposed distinct species of birds. 2 Twenty species are each 

 represented on two plates, and there are thirty-five composite 

 plates where from two to six species are represented together. 



1 Coues erroneously quotes 1861, but at second hand. 



2 The name of the Golden-eyed Duck appears differently on the two plates where 

 it is figured, but it was not intended to recognize two species. 



