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Maine coast and New Brunswick, 

 ii, 30; winter and illness in Boston, 

 ii, 31, 34-35; sends his son to Eng- 

 land to take charge of his publi- 

 cations, and plans an expedition to 

 Labrador, ii, 31; Bachman to, ii, 

 32; to Victor Audubon, ii, 33; 

 drawing of the Golden Eagle, ii, 

 34; to his son, ii, 35-40; financial 

 affairs, ii, 37-38, 65; on his portrait 

 by Inman, ii, 39; his American 

 subscribers, ii, 39-41; letters to 

 Harris, ii, 40; organization of his 

 proposed expedition, ii, 42-44; 

 George Parkman to, ii, 43; sails 

 in the Ripley for Labrador, ii, 

 44; journal of his experiences, ii, 

 44-50; at Bird Rock, ii, 45; dis- 

 covers a new finch, ii, 45 ; scenes of 

 work at Wapitagun, ii, 46-48; his 

 efforts and accomplishments, ii, 

 48; return to Eastport and Bos- 

 ton, ii, 49; editorial comment, ii, 

 50; letter from Havell, ii, 51; 

 Thomas L. McKenney on, ii, 52; 

 arrested in Philadelphia, ii, 52; 

 Washington Irving's aid in Wash- 

 ington, ii, 53; itinerary from Rich- 

 mond, ii, 53; winter at Bachman's, 

 ii, 54; letter to his son, ii, 55-62; 

 on Ord and Waterton, ii, 55, 61; 

 on his buzzard experiments, ii, 55; 

 on Syme's portrait, ii, 57; his fam- 

 ily alliance, ii, 58 ; on his American 

 subscribers, ii, 59, 62; on Robert 

 Havell, ii, 59; on growing old, ii, 

 60; on self-improvement, ii, 61; 

 on Kidd, ii, 57, 62; Bachman, on 

 his working habits, ii, 62; to Har- 

 ris, ii, 64; echo of his early busi- 

 ness troubles, ii, 64; his statement 

 of the case, ii, 65; return to Eng- 

 land, ii, 65; gratitude to Edward 

 Harris, ii, 66; as target of critics 

 and detractors, ii, 67-92; question- 

 able essays, ii, 68; his reply to 

 Sully, ii, 68-71; the rattlesnake 



controversy, ii, 71-80; charges of 

 an editor, ii, 72; his original draw- 

 ing and account of the rattle- 

 snake, ii, 74-76; his errors and 

 vindication, ii, 76-80; letter of 

 Thomas Cooper, ii, 78 ; on the bend 

 of the rattlesnake's fang, ii, 79; 

 rediscovery of his discredited lily, 

 ii, 80; on the buzzard's sense of 

 smell, and present state of the 

 controversy, ii, 81-84; his cham- 

 pions of the scientific and literary 

 press, ii, 84; on his snake stories, 

 ii, 85; his most persistent heckler, 

 ii, 86-92; Waterton and Swainson, 

 on the authorship of his Ornitho- 

 logical Biography, ii, 87; on the 

 rivalries of contemporaries, ii, 93- 

 124; to Swainson, ii, 95-97, 99-100, 

 101-103, 112; Swainson to, ii, 97- 

 99, 103-108; his appeal to Swainson 

 for assistance on his letterpress, 

 ii, 94, 98, 102-103, 104-107; check 

 in friendship and engagement of 

 MacGillivray, ii, 108; resulting 

 controversy over the authorship of 

 the Ornithological Biography, ii, 

 87-88, 109; on the craze for de- 

 scribing new species, ii, 110; "Or- 

 nithophilus" on, ii, 111; Swain- 

 son as biographer of, ii, 113-115; 

 his reference to Bonaparte re- 

 sented, ii, 118; his letter to Bona- 

 parte and their subsequent rela- 

 tions, ii, 119-121; comment on 

 Gould, ii, 121-124; return to Eng- 

 land in 1834, ii, 125; to Edward 

 Harris, ii, 125; on his relations to 

 William MacGillivray, ii, 125-138; 

 MacGillivray to, ii, 126-128, 130- 

 132, 134; his ornithological col- 

 lection, ii, 129; completion of the 

 second volume of his letterpress, 

 ii, 132; to Harris, on the alligator 

 and the American edition of his 

 Ornithological Biography, ii, 132, 

 134; MacGillivray's contract with, 



