Identifier: birdsofamericafr01audu (find matches)
Title: The birds of America : from drawings made in the United States and their territories
Year: 1840 (1840s)
Authors: Audubon, John James, 1785-1851 Bowen, John T., ca. 1801-1856?, lithographer
Subjects: Birds Birds
Publisher: New York : Published by J.J. Audubon Philadelphia : J.B. Chevalier
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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INUTA, WilsOll.PLATE LXVII.—Male. The sight of the figure of this species brings to my recollection a curiousincident of long-past days, when I drew it at Louisville in Kentucky. Itwas in the early part of the spring of 1 SOS, thirty-two years ago, that I pro-cured a specimen of it while searching the margins of a pond. In those happy clays, kind reader, I thought not of the minute differencesby which one species may be distinguished from another in words, or of thenecessity of comparing tarsi, toes, claws, and quills, although I have, as youare aware, troubled you with tedious details of this sort. When AlexanderWilson visited me at Louisville, he found in my already large collection ofdrawings, a figure of the present species, which, being at that time unknownto him, he copied and afterwards published in his great work, but withoutacknowledging the privilege that had thus been granted to him. I havemore than once regretted this, not by any means so much on my own ac- N°14 PI 6 7.
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■J(alc Drawn from Mature fry JJAuriutjoriKK S.F.L.S. / LuM Printed & Col?by J.T.Bowen.rbilod! SMALL HEADED FLYCATCHER. 239 count, as for the sake of one to whom we are so deeply indebted for his elu-cidation of our ornithology. I consider this Flycatcher as among the scarcest of those that visit ourmiddle districts; for, although it seems that Wilson procured one that wasshot on the 24th of April, in an orchard, and afterwards several individu-als of this species in various quarters of New Jersey, particularly in swamps,all my endeavours to trace it in that section of the country have failed, ashave those of my friend Edward Harris, Esq., who is a native of thatState, resides there, and is well acquainted with all the birds found in thedistrict. I have never seen it out of Kentucky, and even there it is a veryuncommon bird. In Philadelphia, Baltimore, New York, or farther east-ward or southward, in our Atlantic districts, I never saw a single individual,not even in museums, priv

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