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2. Prospectus of "The Birds of America," as issued in 18*28, 

 when ten Numbers of the original folio were engraved. 

 (Compare Ornithological Biography, vol. i, pp. 1-16, as 

 supplementary text, at the end.) 



Under the Particular Patronage and Approbation 



of 

 His Most Gracious Majesty 



BIRDS OF AMERICA 



from 

 Drawings 



made 

 During a Residence of Twenty-five Years 



in 



The United States and its Territories, 



by 



John James Audubon, 

 Citizen of the United States. 



Member of the Lyceum of New York; Fellow of the Royal Society of Edin- 

 burgh; of the Linnean Society of London; Member of the Wernerian 

 Natural History Society of Edinburgh; of the Zoological Society, Lon- 

 don; Fellow of the Society of Scottish Antiquaries; Member of the 

 Society for promoting the useful Arts of Scotland; of the Literary and 

 Philosophical Societies of Cambridge, Liverpool, and Newcastle-upon- 

 Tyne; of the Horticultural Society of Edinburgh; of the Natural His- 

 tory Society of Manchester; of the Scottish Academy of Painting, 

 Sculpture and Architecture, &c., Sac. 



PROSPECTUS. 



To those who have not seen any portion of the Author's 

 splendid Collection of Original Drawings it may be proper to 

 explain, that their superiority consists in every specimen being 

 of the full size of life, portrayed with a degree of accuracy as 

 to proportion and outline, the result of peculiar means dis- 



