Birds of America Volume 1 (Plates 1-5)
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Plate I
Wild Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo)
Drawn from nature by J.J. Audubon
Engraved by W.H. Lizars
Retouched by R. Havell, Jr
The great size and beauty of the Wild Turkey, its value as a delicate and highly prized article of food, and the circumstance of its being the origin of the domestic race now generally dispersed over both continents, render it one of the most interesting of the birds indigenous to the United States of America.
– John James Audubon
Plate II
Yellow-billed Cuckoo (Coccyzus Americanus)
Drawn by J.J. Audubon
Engraved by W.H. Lizars
Retouched by R. Havell, Jr.
The flight of the bird now before you is rapid, silent, and horizontal, as it moves from one tree to another, or across a field or river, and is generally continued amongst the branches of the trees in our woods…Whilst at Charleston in South Carolina, in the early part of June, 1837, I was invited by James Smith Rhett, Esq., residing in the suburbs of that city, to visit his grounds for the purpose of viewing the nest of this bird.
– John James Audubon
Plate III
Prothonotary Warbler (Sylvia Protonotarius)
Drawn from nature by J.J. Audubon
Engraved, Printed & Coloured, by R. Havell, Jr.
Dr. Bachman informs me that he has watched this species for hours at a time, when on the borders of streams, and observed it to seize insects on wing by gliding through the air after them, but never heard it click its bill, as is usual with Flycatchers. It breeds in South Carolina, and he saw a pair with four young ones near Charleston, on the 1st of June, 1836.
– John James Audubon
Plate IV
Purple Finch (Fringilla Purpurea)
Drawn from nature by J.J. Audubon
Engraved, Printed & Coloured, by R. Havell, Jr.
The song of the Purple Finch is sweet and continued, and I have enjoyed it much during the spring and summer months… I saw pairs of these birds flying about and feeding their young, which could not have been many days out, and were not fully fledged. The food which they carried to their young consisted of insects, small berries, and the juicy part of the cones of the spruce pine.
– John James Audubon
Plate V
Bonaparte’s Flycatcher
Drawn from nature by J.J. Audubon
Engraved, Printed & Coloured, by R. Havell, Jr.
Whilst I have the pleasure of honouring this beautiful new species with the name of so distinguished a naturalist as Charles Lucien Bonaparte, Prince of Musignano, I regret that I am unable to give any account of its habits, or even of its manner of flight, and must therefore confine my remarks upon it within very brief space.
– John James Audubon
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