JOHN JAMES AUDUBON 27 

 New York and Philadelphia to purchase 

 goods. 



These journeys led him through the 

 "beautiful, the darling forests of Ohio/ 

 Kentucky, and Pennsylvania," and on 

 one occasion he says he lost sight of the 

 pack horses carrying his goods and his 

 dollars, in his preoccupation with a new 

 warbler. 



During his residence in Louisville, 

 Alexander Wilson, his great rival in 

 American ornithology, called upon him. 

 This is Audubon's account of the meet- 

 ing : " One fair morning I was surprised 

 by the sudden entrance into our count- 

 ing room at Louisville of Mr. Alexander 

 Wilson, the celebrated author of the 

 American Ornithology, of whose exist- 

 ence I had never until that moment 

 been apprised. This happened in 

 March, 1810. How well do I remember 

 him as he then walked up to me. His 

 long, rather hooked nose, the keenness 

 of his eyes, and his prominent cheek 



