56 JOHN JAMES AUDUBON 



In August lie left Philadelphia for 

 New York, hoping to improve his fi- 

 nances, and, may be, publish his draw- 

 ings in that city. At this time he hac 

 two hundred sheets, and about one thou- 

 sand birds. While there he again mei 

 Yanderlyn and examined his pictures, 

 but says that he was not impressed with 

 the idea that Yanderlyn was a great 

 painter. 



The birds that he saw in the museum 

 in New York appeared to him to be set 

 up in unnatural and constrained atti- 

 tudes. With Dr. De Kay he visited the 

 Lyceum, and his drawings were exam- 

 ined by members of the Institute. 

 Among them he felt awkward and un- 

 comfortable. " I feel that I am strange 

 to all but the birds of America, 77 he said. 

 As most of the persons to whom he had 

 letters of introduction were absent, and 

 as his spirits soon grew low, he left on 

 the fifteenth for Albany. Here he found 

 his money low also. Abandoning the 



