JOHN JAMES AUDUBON 27 
New York and Philadelphia to purchase 
goods. 
These journeys led him through the 
“beautiful, the darling forests of Ohio, 
Kentucky, and Pennsylvania,’’ and on 
one occasion he says he lost sight of the 
pack horses carrying his goods and his 
dollars, in his preoccupation with a new 
warbler. 
During his residence in Louisville, 
Alexander Wilson, his great rival in 
American ornithology, called upon him. 
This is Audubon’s account of the meet- 
ing: ‘‘ One fair morning I was surprised 
by the sudden entrance into our count- 
ing room at Louisville of Mr. Alexander 
Wilson, the celebrated author of the 
American Ornithology, of whose exist- 
ence I had never until: that moment 
been apprised. This happened in 
March, 1810. How well do I remember 
him as he then walked up to me. His 
long, rather hooked nose, the keenness 
of his eyes, and his prominent cheek 
