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ever, were the ^ Wild Turkeys, Canada Goose, Great 

 Northern Diver, Raven, American Robin, and Ruby- 

 throated Hummingbird, all among the finest of the orig- 

 inal 435. 



Under the guidance of Mr. George Bird Grinnell, 

 on April 6, 1916, I paid a visit to "Audubon Park," 

 now "Minnie's Land" no longer, where country roads 

 have given way to business streets and forests to sub- 

 ways and skyscraper apartment houses. Notwithstand- 

 ing the momentous changes which the extension of upper 

 New York City has effected both above and below 

 ground during the recent era of rapid transportation, 

 the old Audubon houses still remain, like boulders amid 

 stream, the impact of the city which has flowed around 

 and beyond them being checked for the moment by a 

 rampart of solid masonry, the retaining wall of the far- 

 famed Riverside Drive, which rises above Audubon's 

 old house close to its rear veranda and there makes 

 a wide turn. For Mr. Grinnell this was a return to the 

 scenes of his boyhood; the home of his father, Mr. 

 George Blake Grinnell, stood on the hill just above the 

 Audubon house, not far from the present "Riviera" 

 building at One Hundred and Fifty-Seventh Street; the 

 Grinnell apartment house which towers aloft close at 

 hand stands in their old cow pasture, while their garden 

 site is marked by the present entrance to the subway 

 station on Broadway. 



The first part of Audubon's original tract to be sold 

 was the easterly section, extending from what is now 

 the east side of Broadway to the Bloomingdale Road, 

 and between the present One Hundred and Fifty-sixth 

 and One Hundred and Fifty-seventh Streets; on that 

 portion John Woodhouse Audubon built a large frame 

 structure which, for a number of years, served as a 



