INTRODUCTION 



TN the brief biography of Audubon which follows, 

 I have given, I believe, the only correct account 

 that has been written, and as such I present it. I 

 am not competent to give an opinion as to the 

 merits of his work, nor is it necessary. His place 

 as naturalist, woodsman, artist, author, has long 

 since been accorded him, anvd he himself says: '* My 

 enemies have been few, and my friends numerous." 

 I have tried only to put Audubon the man before 

 my readers, and in his own words so far as possible, 

 that they may know what he was, not what others 

 thought he was. 



M. R. A. 



