JOHN JAMES AUDUBON 



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collector and often returned from rambles in the country loaded 

 down with specimens. Later in life this must have given him the 

 background his genius needed. He lost his money while still a 

 young man, sold his property near Philadelphia, and moved west 

 with his young wife to Louisville, Kentucky. Here he began a life 

 of wandering and careful study of birds which has given to us some 

 of our most valuable information on the bird life of that region 

 west of the Alleghenies. 

 His descriptions of the 

 killing of immense num- 

 bers of passenger pigeons 

 and of an Indian swan 

 hunt give us the reasons 

 for the disappearance of 

 these two birds from our 

 country. Audubon is 

 best known for his won- 

 derful work on North 

 American birds, which he 

 illustrated with colored 

 plates drawn by himself. 

 He traveled in all acces- 

 sible parts of United 

 States and Canada for 

 material. As a result 

 of this work he became 



famous. He died in <? ^ e /y , , 



comparative comfort at chanes l. mtzmann 



his home on the banks of the Hudson in upper Manhattan on 

 January 27, 1851. 



Self-Testing Exercise 



Linnaeus made the (1) system of (2) 



(3) (4) trained many (5) in this country at the first 



seashore (6) on the island of Penikese. This laboratory 



later gave rise to the now famous one at ........ (7) (8), 



(9). Audubon was a great (10) and a painter of 



(id. 



