ii6 ai.exanderwii.son: poet-naturaust 



Audubon he says, "His birds are very demonstra- 

 tive, even theatrical and melodramatic at times. 

 * * Wilson errs, if at all, in the other direction. 

 His birds, on the other hand, reflect his cautious, 

 undemonstrative Scotch nature." The compari- 

 son is not, after all, a very severe one for Wilson's 

 fame. 



