\rhat I was pleased 



of drawiny; birds, 



I will try to put 



and habits of the 

 rith the idea that 



certain degree of 

 my one of them, 

 ce were positively 

 at every bird truly 

 ually in a passive 

 and then glancing 

 ch the approach of 

 of this prey their 

 ach and all of that 



ssed of movements 

 nongst the water- 

 iners. I observed 

 ;e and stateliness, 

 mark by which it 

 lected many ideas 

 yr began, in greater 

 Birds of America, 



s, the better I be- 

 loped were natural 

 fires on squares, I 

 nature, previously 

 d its general form 

 w I could examine 

 s, legs, and claws, 

 and tail; the very 

 thought the more 

 better representa- 



AUUUBON. 



FROM A FENCIL SKP.TCH AFIKR IH'AIII, liV JillIN WOOUIIIUISE AUDUBON. 

 January s8, 1851. 



