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Audubon's signature to the release given to Ferdinand Rozier on the 



dissolution of their partnership in 1811 242 



Ferdinand Rozier in his eighty-fifth year (1862) . . . Facing 246 

 Rozier's old store at Ste. Genevieve, Kentucky . . . Facing 246 



Letter of Audubon to Ferdinand Rozier, signed "Audubon & Bake- 

 well," and dated October 19, 1813, during the first partnership 

 under this style 251 



Audubon's Mill at Henderson, Kentucky, since destroyed, as seen from 



the bank of the Ohio River Facing 254 



An old street in the Coueron of today Facing 264 



"Les Tourterelles," Coueron, final home of Anne Moynet Audubon, and 

 the resting-place of exact records of the naturalist's birth and 

 early life Facing 264 



Early drawings of American birds, 1808-9, hitherto unpublished: the 



Belted Kingfisher and the Wild Pigeon .... Facing 292 



Bayou Sara Landing, West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, at the junc- 

 tion of Bayou Sara and the Mississippi River . . Facing 314 



Scene on Bayou Sara Creek, Audubon's hunting ground in 



1821 Facing 314 



Road leading from Bayou Sara Landing to the village of St. Francis- 



ville, West Feliciana Parish Facing 318 



"Oakley," the James Pirrie plantation house near St. Francisville, where 

 Audubon made some of his famous drawings while acting as a 

 tutor in 1821 Facing 318 



An early letter of Audubon to Edward Harris, written at Philadel- 

 phia, July 14, 1824 332 



Note of Dr. Samuel Latham Mitchell, written hurriedly in pencil, 

 recommending Audubon to his friend, Dr. Barnes, August 4, 

 1824 .. . . . 337 



Crayon portrait of Miss Jennett Benedict, an example of Audubon's 

 itinerant portraiture. After the original drawn by Audubon at 

 Meadville, Pennsylvania, in 1824 Facing 342 



Miss Eliza Pirrie, Audubon's pupil at "Oakley" in 1821. After an 



oil portrait Facing 342 



Early drawing of the "Frog-eater," Cooper's Hawk, 1810, hitherto un- 

 published Facing 348 



Pencil sketch of a "Shark, 7 feet long, off Cuba," from Audubon's 



Journal of his voyage to England in 1826 . . . Facing 348 



First page of Audubon's Journal of his voyage from New Orleans to 



Liverpool in 1826 Facing 349 



