The Darlington Digital Library The University of Pittsburg http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/t/text/text-idx?c=darltext;idno=31735056284882;cc=darltext;view=toc Authors : Audubon, John James, 1785-1851., Macgillivray, William, 1796-1852. Title: 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 / v.1 Georgetown University Art Collection - Exhibitions Audubon's Birds of America: Selections from the "Amsterdam Edition" http://library.georgetown.edu/dept/speccoll/guac/audubon_06/illustrations.htm Audubon published his Ornithological Biography, or an account of the habits of the birds of the United States of America, in Edinburgh in five volumes between 1831 and 1839. Intended to amplify and accompany his Birds of America, the Ornithological Biography provided detailed observations of the physical properties and characteristics of each species, his reactions to them, and in some cases the best method of capturing or hunting them. University of South Carolina Dept of Rare Books and Special Collections John James Audubon's Birds of America http://www.sc.edu/library/spcoll/audubon/audubon7.html Audubon was born, not in the America with which he is so closely identified, but in Saint-Dominique (now Haiti) in the French West Indies, the illegitimate son of a French planter and his creole mistress. Following the French Revolution of 1789, father and children returned to France, but with Toussaint l'Ouverture's Haitian Revolution the following year, the Audubons lost their West Indies holdings. In revolutionary Paris, the young Audubon was exposed to the natural history of Buffon and Lamarck, studied painting with David, and completed some early bird-pictures. caruncle kə-rŭng'kəl, kăr'ŭng´- http://www.bartleby.com/61/47/C0134700.html gallenaceous găl´ə-nā'shəs http://www.bartleby.com/61/4/G0020400.html papilla pə-pĭl'ə http://www.bartleby.com/61/30/P0053000.html rugose rū'gōs´ http://www.bartleby.com/61/16/R0341600.html scabrous skăb'rəs, skā'brəs http://www.bartleby.com/61/53/S0115300.html scutella skyū-tĕl'ə http://www.bartleby.com/61/4/S0180400.html scutellate skyū-tĕl'ĭt, skyū-t'lāt´ http://www.bartleby.com/61/2/S0180200.html