102 John Bachman. 



tropical climate? I have only room to subscribe 

 myself, Your friend, J. B. 



CHARLESTON, Oct. 20th, 1832. 

 DEAR AUDUBON : This moment yours of the 20th 

 inst, has come to hand, and I hasten to answer 

 it. The book for the South Carolina College, 

 is on board of the vessel at quarantine, and 

 shall be attended to. My sister Maria, has made 

 several drawings, which she thinks of sending you ; 

 but I am anxious to retain them for awhile, in hopes 

 that you may be tempted to come for them yourself. 

 Ever since you left us, I have been studying up my 

 Ornithology, in order to be useful to you, and, if 1 am 

 spared, I hope to be so. A month in your society 

 would afford me a greater treat than the highest 

 prize in a lottery. I cannot, I find, feel myself at 

 home with new birds without having the skins to 

 refer to. My cabinet is enlarging every day. Henry 

 Ward now prepares the skins a pair of each. * * * I 

 am afraid that our Northern Sylvias do not pass near 

 our sea-coast ; I rather think that they follow the 

 mountains ; the " Henslow's Bunting " is not rare 

 here ; I killed three yesterday, and saw, at least, a 

 half dozen. I shall, next week, write all I know 

 about the Fringilla I found last spring. If you 

 have received my last letter, you will perceive 

 that another new Fringilla has been discovered. 

 I shot it a few weeks ago, and have a skin for you. 

 Maria made a correct drawing of it. I thought 

 at first that it might be the long sought after " Frin- 

 gilla Canencuta" of Latham, which Nuttall noticed, 

 and which Wilson says does not exist ; but which I 

 hope to find. * * * Your Cranes are elegant, but I wish 

 them in the Zoological Garden, as they commenced 

 chasing the children, and I have found it necessary 

 to have them confined. * * * What ducks, that are not 



