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CHAPTER XVI 



NOTE AND ADDENDA BY THE AMERICAN PUBLISHERS. 



WE have taken tlie liberty of transposing 

 some portions of the foregoing pages from 

 the London edition, having ascertained that 

 chronological mistakes had been made by the 

 fair authoress in preparing her interesting sketch 

 of Audubon, and we would further say, that as 

 she appears not to have been aware of the pub- 

 lication of his second great work, the " Quad- 

 rupeds of North America," (which has not been 

 advertised, we believe, in Europe,) it has been 

 deemed by us essential to mention it, and to 

 subjoin the following particulars: — 



When Audubon had finished his great edi- 

 tion of the "Birds of America," and had also 

 published a S3^nopsis of the species inhabiting 

 our country, (which was issued in Edinburgh, in 

 1839,) leaving the hospitable shores of Britain, 

 and parting with many highly valued friends, 

 he embarked for his native land, and after a 

 tedious, although not otherwise unpleasant voy- 

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