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PART OF LETTER OF CHARLES LUCIEK BONAPARTE TO AUDUBO>> JANUARY 10, 1829. 



From the Rowland MSS. 



agent in that port. Messrs F. & A. Filuchs.( ?) I shall keep a 

 good lookout for it being extremely anxious to see your new 

 number. I should never have done if I was [to] repeat [to] 

 you all the praise given to your work by our Italian artists 

 men of science ! . . . I shall merely state that on my part I 

 prefer the plate of Goldfinches to any other, birds and plants, 

 being life itself; & that I am most anxious to see Astur Stan- 

 leyi which I strongly suspect to be my Falco Cooperii. . . . 

 By this time, however you may have been able to ascertain the 

 fact . . . please let me know how the thing stands. It is only 



