

THE 



BIRDS OF AMERICA. 



FROM 



DRAWINGS MADE IN THE UNITED STATES 



AND THEIR TERRITORIES. 



BY JOHN JAMES AUDUBON, F. R. SS. L. & E. 



Fellow of the Linnean and Zoological Societies of London; Member of the Lyceum of Natural History 



of New York, of the Natural History Society of Paris, the Wernerian Natural History Society of 



Edinburgh; Honorary Member of the Society of Natural History of Manchester, and of the 



Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture; Member of 



the American Philosophical Society, of the Academy of Natural Sciences 



at Philadelphia, of the Natural History Societies of Boston, of 



Charleston in South Carolina, the Quebec Literary and 



Historical Society, the Ornithological Society 



in London, the Societe Franraise de 



Statistique Universelle de 



Paris, &c. &c. 



Vol. VII. 



J. J. AUDUBON, 



77 WILLIAM STREET, NEW YORK, 



34 NORTH FRONT STREET, PHILADELPHIA. 



1844. 



