442 AUDUBON, THE NATURALIST 
field of American ornithology so thoroughly as to render 
his work a drug on the market, if not to make it super- 
fluous. Whether this were really true or not, there is 
no doubt that Audubon’s activity furnished the stimulus 
to the sudden appreciation of the work of his predeces- 
sor that was manifested in Edinburgh at this very mo- 
ment of time. It will be interesting to see just what 
these rival enterprises were. Professor Jameson, who 
had been of great service to Audubon at the beginning 
of his undertaking, prepared a pocket edition of Wil- 
son’s and Bonaparte’s Ornithology, with miniature 
plates which were issued separately, and the two works, 
which were intended to go together, were published in 
1831.° Sir William Jardine brought out an edition of 
Wilson’s and Bonaparte’s work, in three large volumes, 
with plates engraved by W. H. Lizars after the orig- 
inals and carefully colored by hand. This was thor- 
° American Ornithology, or the Natural History of the Birds of the 
United States. By Alexander Wilson and Charles Lucien Bonaparte. 
Edited by Robert Jameson... Regius Professor of Natural History 
in the University of Edinburgh. Appearing as vols. Ixviii-lxxi of Con- 
stable’s Miscellany, 4 vols., 18mo., Edinburgh and London, 1831. This was 
the fourth (?) edition of Wilson’s work, and the first (?) to appear in 
Europe; with portrait of Wilson and vignettes on titles engraved by Lizars, 
memoir of Wilson by W. M. Hetherington, and extracts from Audubon, 
Richardson, and Swainson. 
The plates of this edition were issued in numbers, under title of 
Illustrations of American Ornithology; reduced from the work of Wilson; 
18mo., Edinburgh and London (1831). In a notice of the first number 
which appeared in the Caledonian Mercury (Edinburgh) for Oct. 29, 1831, 
it was stated that the plates were issued in small size to be bound up 
with Jameson’s edition of the text, and that they were intended “for a 
different class of purchasers from those likely to take the folio edition, 
then being brought out by the publishers of Constable’s Miscellany. The 
plates were engraved in line and executed in a very superior style, both 
plain and colored.” 
® American Ornithology; or Natural History of the Birds of the 
United States, by Alexander Wilson, with a Continuation by Charles Lucien 
Bonaparte, Prince of Musignano. The Illustrative Notes and Life of 
Wilson by Sir William Jardine, 3 vols., 8vo.. London and Edinburgh, 
1832. 
The second (?) European edition of Wilson and Bonaparte, with 97 
hand-colored plates engraved by Lizars. The Caledonian Mercury in 
