402 AUDUBON, THE NATURALIST 
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LETTER OF WILLIAM SWAINSON TO AUDUBON, MAY, 1828. 
From the Deane MSS. 
1838. In his use of English at this time Audubon 
was not far behind Swainson, whose mother tongue it 
was. Swainson, according to Dr. Giinther, was “ex- , 
tremely careless in orthography and loose in his style 
of writing: he persistently misspelt not only technical 
terms, but also the names of foreign authors, and even 
of some of his familiar friends and correspondents; he 
