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"Mill Grove" in 1835 (about). After a water-color painting by Charles 



Wetherill Facing 102 



"Mill Grove," Audubon, Pennsylvania, as it appears to-day . Facing 102 

 "Mill Grove" farmhouse, west front, as it appears to-day . Facing 110 



"Fatland Ford," Audubon, Pennsylvania, the girlhood home of Lucy 



Bakewell Audubon Facing 110 



Early drawings of French birds, 1805, hitherto unpublished: the male 



Reed Bunting ("Sedge Sparrow"), and the male Redstart Facing 128 



Receipt given by Captain Sammis of the Polly to Audubon and Ferdi 

 nand Rozier for their passage money from Nantes to New York, 

 May 28, 1806 134 



"La Gerbetiere," Jean Audubon's country villa at Coueron, France, and 



the naturalist's boyhood home Facing 136 



"La Gerbetiere" and Coueron, as seen from the highest point in the 

 commune, windmill towers on the ridge overlooking Port Launay, 

 on the Loire Facing 142 



"La Gerbetiere," as seen when approached from Coueron village by the 



road to Port Launay ....... Facing 142 



Port Launay on the Loire Facing 142 



Beginning of the "Articles of Association" of John James Audubon 



and Ferdinand Rozier, signed at Nantes, March 23, 1806 Facing 146 



First page of a power of attorney granted by Jean Audubon, Anne 

 Moynet Audubon and Claude Fran9ois Rozier to John James Au- 

 dubon and Ferdinand Rozier, Nantes, April 4, 1806 . Facing 152 



Signatures of Jean Audubon, Anne Moynet Audubon, Dr. Chapelain 

 and Dr. Charles d'Orbigny to a power of attorney granted to John 

 James Audubon and Ferdinand Rozier, Coueron, November 20, 

 1806 Facing 153 



Early drawings of French birds, 1805, hitherto unpublished: the Euro 

 pean Crow, with detail of head of the Rook, and the White Wag- 

 tail Facing 174 



Early drawing in crayon point of the groundhog, 1805, hitherto un- 

 published Facing 182 



Water-color drawing of a young raccoon, 1841 . . . Facing 182 



Alexander Wilson Facing 212 



William Bartram Facing 212 



The "twin" Mississippi Kites of Wilson and Audubon, the similarity 

 of which inspired charges of misappropriation against Audu- 

 bon Facing 228 



