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ORNITHOLOGICAL BIOGRAPHY,
OR AN ACCOUNT OF THE HABITS OF THE
BIRDS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
ACCOMPANIED BY DESCRIPTIONS OF THE OBJECTS REPRESENTEDIN THE WORK ENTITLED
THE BIRDS OF AMERICA,
AND INTERSPERSED WITH DELINEATIONS OF AMERICANSCENERY AND MANNERS.
BY JOHN JAMES AUDUBON, F.R.SS.L. & E.
FELLOW OF THE LINNEAN AND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETIES OF LONDON; MEMBER OF THE LYCEUMOF NEW YORK, OF THE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF PARIS, THE WERNERIAN NATURALHISTORY SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH; HONORARY MEMBER OF THE SOCIETY OF NATURALHISTORY OF MANCHESTER, AND OF THE SCOTTISH ACADEMY OF PAINTING, SCULPTURE,AND ARCHITECTURE; MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, OF THEACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES AT PHILADELPHIA, OF THE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETIESOF BOSTON, OF CHARLESTON IN SOUTH CAROLINA, &C. &C.
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Ten years have now elapsed since the first number of myIllustrations of the Birds of America made its appearance. Atthat period I calculated that the engravers would take sixteenyears in accomplishing their task; and this I announced in myprospectus, and talked of to my friends. Of the latter not asingle individual seemed to have the least hope of my success,and several st