PREFACE xi 
scripts, and for favors of various sorts. Furthermore, I am 
indebted to the good offices of Mr. Ferdinand Lathrop Mayer, 
Secretary of Legation, Port-au-Prince, and of M. Fontaine, 
American Consular Agent at Les Cayes, Haiti, for a series 
of photographs made expressly to represent Les Cayes as it 
appears today. I would also acknowledge the courtesy of the 
Corporation of Trinity Parish, New York, through Mr. 
Pendleton Dudley, for an excellent photograph of the Audu- 
bon Monument. 
I cannot express too fully my appreciation of the hearty 
response which the publishers of these volumes have given to 
every question concerned with their presentation in an ade- 
quate and attractive form, and particularly to Mr. Francis 
G. Wickware, of D. Appleton and Company, to whose knowl- 
edge, skill, and unabated interest the reader, like myself, is in- 
debted in manifold ways. 
My friend, Mr. Ruthven Deane, well known for his inves- 
tigations in Auduboniana and. American ornithological litera- 
ture, has not only read the proofs of the text, but has gener- 
ously placed at my disposal many valuable notes, references, 
Pictures, letters and other documents, drawn from his own 
researches and valuable personal collections. I wish to 
express in the most particular manner also my ap- 
preciation of the generous spirit in which Mr. Joseph 
Y. Jeanes has opened the treasures in his possession, 
embracing not only large numbers of hitherto unpublished 
letters, but an unrivaled collection of early unpublished Au- 
dubonian drawings, for the enrichment and embellishment of 
these pages. For the loan or transcription of other original 
manuscript material, or for supplying much needed data of 
every description, I am further most indebted to Mr. Welton 
H. Rozier, of St. Louis; Mr. Tom J. Rozier, of Ste. Genevieve ; 
Mr. C. A. Rozier, of St. Louis; the Secretary of the Linnean 
Society of London, through my friend, Mr. George E. Bullen, 
of St. Albans; Mr. Henry R. Howland of the Buffalo So- 
ciety of Natural Sciences, of Buffalo; Mr. William Beer, of 
the Howard Memorial Library, of New Orleans; and Mr. W. 
