XU CONTENTS. 



FAGS 



Timely Warning 72 



Imminent Danger 73 



Opportune Arrival of Friends 74 



Hospitality of Backwoodsmen 74 



An Incident 74 



Rough Travelling 75 



Interior of a Log Cabin 76 



Hearty Hospitality of the Inmates 7*7 



Far-fetched Cider 77 



CHAPTER VH. 



Audubon in Philadelphia, in 1824 79 



As yet unaware of future Success 79 



Is introduced to Charles Lucien Bonaparte 80 



By him urged to Publication 80 



Doubts and Hesitation 80 



Rearranges his Drawings 81 



Determines to continue his Explorations *. 81 



The Great Pine Swamp 81 



Audubon in Upper Canada 82 



Replenishes his Purse by taking Portraits 83 



Returns to his Family in Louisiania 83 



Luxuriant Vegetation of Louisiana 83 



The Louisiana Thrushes 84 



Privations attendant on his Pursuits 85 



Cheered by the Song of Birds 86 



Habits of the Wood Thrush 87 



Its Antipathy to the Raccoon 87 



Peculiarities of the Mocking Bird 88 



Its Young destroyed by Snakes 89 



The Humming Bird 89 



Its brilliant Plumage 90 



Rapid Flight 90 



Whole Structure adapted for Flight 91 



