ORNITHOLOGICAL BIOGRAPHY,
OR AN ACCOUNT OF THE HABITS OF THE
BIRDS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA;
ACCOMPANIED BY DESCRIPTIONS OF THE OBJECTS REPRESENTED IN THE WORK ENTITLED
THE BIRDS OF AMERICA,
AND INTERSPERSED WITH DELINEATIONS OF AMERICAN SCENERY AND MANNERS.
BY JOHN JAMES AUDUBON, F.R.SS.L.&E.
FELLOW OF THE LINNEAN AND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETIES OF LONDON; MEMBER OF THE LYCEUM AND LINNEAN SOCIETY 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 SCOTTISH ACADEMY OF PAINTING, ARCHITECTURE, AND SCULPTURE, &C.
EDINBURGH:
ADAM BLACK, 55. NORTH BRIDGE, EDINBURGH;
R. HAVELL JUN., ENGRAVER, 77. OXFORD STREET, AND LONGMAN, REES, BROWN, & GREEN, LONDON; GEORGE SMITH, TITHEBARR STREET, LIVERPOOL; T. SOWLER, MANCHESTER; MRS ROBINSON, LEEDS; E. CHARNLEY, NEWCASTLE; POOL & BOOTH, CHESTER; AND BEILBY, KNOTT, & BEILBY, BIRMINGHAM.
MDCCCXXXI.
NEILL & CO. PRINTERS,
Old Fishmarket, Edinburgh.
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The Wild Turkey, | Meleagris Gallopavo, | 1 |
The Yellow-billed Cuckoo, | Coccyzus Americanus, | 18 |
The Prothonotary Warbler, | Sylvia Protonotarius, | 22 |
The Purple Finch, | Fringilla purpurea, | 24 |
Bonaparte's Fly-catcher, | Muscicapa Bonapartii, | 27 |
The Ohio, | 29 | |
The Wild Turkey. Female. | Meleagris Gallopavo | 33 |
The Purple Grakle, or Common Crow-Black-bird, | Quiscalus versicolor, | 35 |
The White-throated Sparrow, | Fringilla pennsylvanica, | 42 |
Selby's Flycatcher, | Muscicapa Selbii, | 46 |
The Brown Titlark, | Anthus Spinoletta, | 49 |
The Great Pine Swamp, | 52 | |
The Bird of Washington, | Falco Washingtonii, | 58 |
The Baltimore Oriole, | Icterus Baltimore, | 66 |
The Snow Bird, | Fringilla hyemalis, | 72 |
The Prairie Warbler, | Sylvia discolor, | 76 |
The Blue Yellow-backed Warbler, | Sylvia americana, | 78 |
The Prairie, | 81 | |
The Great-footed Hawk, | Falco peregrinus, | 85 |
The Carolina Turtle Dove, | Columba carolinensis, | 91 |
Bewick's Wren, | Troglodytes Bewickii, | 96 |
The Louisiana Water Thrush, | Turdus ludovicianus, | 99 |
The Blue-winged Yellow Warbler, | Sylvia solitaria, | 102 |
The Regulators, | 105 | |
The Mocking Bird, | Turdus polyglottus, | 108 |
The Purple Martin, | Hirundo purpurea, | 115 |
The Yellow-breasted Warbler, or Maryland Yellow-throat, | Sylvia Trichas, | 121 |
Roscoe's Yellow-throat, | Sylvia Roscoe, | 124 |
The Song Sparrow, | Fringilla melodia, | 126 |
Improvements in the Navigation of the Mississippi, | 130 | |
The Carolina Parrot, | Psittacus carolinensis, | 135 |
The Red-headed Woodpecker, | Picus erythrocephalus, | 141 |
The Solitary Fly-catcher, or Vireo, | Vireo solitarius, | 147 |
The Towhe Bunting, | Fringilla erythrophthalma, | 150 |
Vigors's Warbler, | Sylvia Vigorsii, | 153 |
A Flood, | 155 | |
The White-headed Eagle, | Falco leucocephalus, | 160 |
The Black-billed Cuckoo, | Coccyzus erythrophthalmus, | 170 |
The American Goldfinch, | Fringilla tristis, | 172 |
The Worm-eating Warbler, | Sylvia vermivora, | 177 |
Children's Warbler, | Sylvia Childrenii, | 180 |
Meadville, | 182 | |
The Stanley Hawk, | Falco Stanleii, | 186 |
The Golden-winged Woodpecker, | Pictis auratus, | 191 |
The Kentucky Warbler, | Sylvia formosa, | 196 |
The Crested Titmouse, | Parus bicolor, | 199 |
The American Redstart, | Muscicapa Ruticilla, | 202 |
The Cougar, | 205 | |
The Ruffed Grouse, | Tetrao Umbellus, | 211 |
The Orchard Oriole, | Icterus spurius, | 221 |
The Cedar Bird, | Bombycilla carolinensis, | 227 |
The Summer Red Bird, | Tanagra æstiva, | 232 |
Traill's Fly-catcher, | Muscicapa Traillii, | 236 |
The Earthquake, | 239 | |
The Barred Owl, | Strix nebulosa, | 242 |
The Ruby-throated Humming Bird, | Trochilus colubris, | 248 |
The Azure Warbler, | Sylvia azurea, | 255 |
The Blue-green Warbler, | Sylvia rara, | 258 |
The Black-and-yellow Warbler, | Sylvia maculosa, | 260 |
The Hurricane, | 262 | |
The Red-tailed Hawk, | Falco borealis, | 265 |
Chuckwill's Widow, | Caprimulgus carolinensis, | 273 |
The Painted Finch, | Fringilla ciris, | 279 |
The Rice Bird, | Icterus agripennis, | 283 |
Cuvier's Regulus, | Regulus Cuvierii, | 288 |
Kentucky Sports, | 290 | |
The Red-shouldered Hawk, | Falco lineatus, | 296 |
The Loggerhead Shrike, | Lanius ludovicianus, | 300 |
The Hermit Thrush, | Turdus minor, | 303 |
The Chestnut-sided Warbler, | Sylvia icterocephala, | 306 |
The Carbonated Warbler, | Sylvia carbonata, | 308 |
The Traveller and the Pole-cat, | 310 | |
The Great Horned Owl, | Strix virginiana, | 313 |
The Passenger Pigeon, | Columba migratoria, | 319 |
The White-eyed Flycatcher, or Vireo, | Vireo noveboracensis, | 328 |
The Swamp Sparrow, | Fringilla palustris, | 331 |
The Rathbone Warbler, | Sylvia Rathbonia, | 333 |
Deer Hunting, | 335 | |
The Ivory-billed Woodpecker, | Picus principalis, | 341 |
The Red-winged Starling, or Marsh Blackbird, | Icterus phœniceus, | 348 |
The Republican, or Cliff Swallow, | Hirundo fulva, | 353 |
The Bay-breasted Warbler, | Sylvia castanea, | 358 |
Henslow's Bunting, | Emberiza Henslowii, | 360 |
Niagara, | 362 | |
The Winter Hawk, | Falco hyemalis, | 364 |
The Swallow-tailed Hawk, | Falco furcatus, | 368 |
The Wood Thrush, | Turdus mustelinus, | 372 |
The Indigo Bird, | Fringilla cyanea, | 377 |
Le Petit Caporal, | Falco temerarius, | 381 |
Hospitality in the Woods, | 383 | |
The Virginian Partridge, | Perdix virginiana, | 388 |
The Belted Kingsfisher, | Alcedo Alcyon, | 394 |
The Great Carolina Wren, | Troglodytes ludovicianus, | 399 |
The Tyrant Fly-catcher, | Muscicapa tyrannus, | 403 |
The Prairie Titlark, | Anthus pipiens, | 408 |
The Original Painter, | 410 | |
The Fish Hawk, or Osprey | Falco Haliaetus, | 415 |
Whip-poor-will, | Caprimulgus vociferus. | 422 |
The House Wren, | Troglodytes ædon, | 427 |
The Blue-grey Fly-catcher, | Muscicapa cœrulea, | 431 |
The Yellow-throated Warbler, | Sylvia pensilis, | 434 |
Louisville in Kentucky, | 437 | |
The Black Warrior, | Falco Harlani, | 441 |
The Florida Jay, | Corvus floridanus, | 444 |
The Autumnal Warbler, | Sylvia autumnalis, | 447 |
The Nashville Warbler, | Sylvia rubricapilla, | 450 |
The Black-and-white Creeper, | Certhia varia, | 452 |
The Eccentric Naturalist, | 455 | |
The Broad-winged Hawk, | Falco pennsylvanicus, | 461 |
The Pigeon Hawk, | Falco columbarius, | 466 |
The Sea-side Finch, | Fringilla maritima, | 470 |
The Grass Finch, or Bay-winged Bunting | Fringilla graminea, | 473 |
The Yellow-poll Warbler, | Sylvia æstiva, | 476 |
Scipio and the Bear, | 479 | |
The Columbian Jay, | Corvus Bullockii, | 483 |
The Little Screech Owl, | Strix Asio, | 486 |
The White-bellied Swallow, | Hirundo bicolor, | 491 |
The Cow-pen Bird, | Icterus pecoris, | 493 |
The Marsh Wren, | Troglodytes palustris, | 500 |
Colonel Boon, | 503 |
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