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field of American ornithology so thoroughly as to render 

 his work a drug on the market, if not to make it super- 

 fluous. Whether this were really true or not, there is 

 no doubt that Audubon's activity furnished the stimulus 

 to the sudden appreciation of the work of his predeces- 

 sor that was manifested in Edinburgh at this very mo- 

 ment of time. It will be interesting to see just what 

 these rival enterprises were. Professor Jameson, who 

 had been of great service to Audubon at the beginning 

 of his undertaking, prepared a pocket edition of Wil- 

 son's and Bonaparte's Ornithology, with miniature 

 plates which were issued separately, and the two works, 

 which were intended to go together, were published in 

 183 1. 5 Sir William Jardine brought out an edition of 

 Wilson's and Bonaparte's work, in three large volumes, 

 with plates engraved by W. H. Lizars after the orig- 

 inals and carefully colored by hand. 6 This was thor- 



5 American Ornithology, or the Natural History of the Birds of the 

 United States. By Alexander Wilson and Charles Lucien Bonaparte. 

 Edited by Robert Jameson . . . Regius Professor of Natural History 

 in the University of Edinburgh. Appearing as vols. Ixviii-lxxi of Con- 

 stable's Miscellany, 4 vols., 18mo., Edinburgh and London, 1831. This was 

 the fourth (?) edition of Wilson's work, and the first (?) to appear in 

 Europe; with portrait of Wilson and vignettes on titles engraved by Lizars, 

 memoir of Wilson by W. M. Hetherington, and extracts from Audubon, 

 Richardson, and Swainson. 



The plates of this edition were issued in numbers, under title of 

 Illustrations of American Ornithology; reduced from the work of Wilson; 

 18mo., Edinburgh and London (1831). In a notice of the first number 

 which appeared in the Caledonian Mercury (Edinburgh) for Oct. 29, 1831, 

 it was stated that the plates were issued in small size ft) be bound up 

 with Jameson's edition of the text, and that they were intended "for a 

 different class of purchasers from those likely to take the folio edition, 

 then being brought out by the publishers of Constable's Miscellany. The 

 plates were engraved in line and executed in a very superior style, both 

 plain and colored." 



6 American Ornithology; or Natural History of the Birds of the 

 United States, by Alexander Wilson, with a Continuation by Charles Lucien 

 Bonaparte, Prince of Musignano. The Illustrative Notes and Life of 

 Wilson by Sir William Jardine, 3 vols., 8vo., London and Edinburgh, 

 1832. 



The second (?) European edition of Wilson and Bonaparte, with 97 

 hand-colored plates engraved by Lizars. The Caledonian Mercury in 



