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After outfitting himself in Philadelphia, Audubon 

 proceeded to Mauch Chunk; his provisions for this jour- 

 ney to the forest consisted of a "wooden box containing 

 a small stock of linin, drawing-paper, my journal, colors 

 and pencils, together with twenty pounds of shot, sev- 

 eral flints, a due quantum of cash, my gun 'Tear 

 Jacket,' and a heart as true to nature as ever." From 

 Mauch Chunk he traveled fifteen miles into the heart 

 of the wooded hills, and was received into the family 

 of Jedediah Irish, lumberman and philosopher, whose 

 praise was celebrated in a later "Episode." 3 'What 

 pleasure," said the naturalist, "I had in listening to 

 him, as he read his favourite poems of Burns, while my 

 pencil was occupied in smoothing and softening the 

 drawing of the bird before me. Was this not enough 

 to recall to my mind the early impressions that had been 

 made upon it by the description of the golden age, which 

 I here found realized?" 



During his stay in the forest Audubon paid par- 

 ticular attention to the smaller land birds, such as 

 finches, warblers and flycatchers, and many of the orig- 

 inal drawings which were made in the summer of 1829 

 still bear his penciled designations of time and place. 4 



3 See "The Great Pine Swamp," and "Great Egg Harbour," Ornithologi- 

 cal Biography (Bibl. No. 2), vol. i, p. 52, and vol. iii, p. 606. 



4 Though the year is not usually indicated on the originals, the follow- 

 ing drawings probably belong to this period: 



Black Poll Warbler, New Jersey, May. 



Wood Pewee Flycatcher, New Jersey, May. 



Small Green-crested Flycatcher, New Jersey, May. 



Golden-crowned Thrush, New Jersey, May. 



Warbling Flycatcher, Vireo gilvus, New Jersey, May 23. 



Yellow-breasted Chat, New Jersey, June 7. 



Sea Side Finch, Great Egg Harbour, June 14. 



Marsh Wren, New Jersey, June 22. 



Bay-winged Bunting, Great Egg Harbour, June 26. 



Canada Flycatcher, Great Pine Swamp, August 1. 



Pine Swamp Warbler, Great Pine Swamp, August 11. 



Black and Yellow "Warble^ Great Pine Swamp, August 12. 



