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...AUDUBON'S AMERICA-Edited by Donald Culross Peattie-Houghton Mifflin...
John James Audubon migrated up & down early 19th-Century North America about as freely as the birds he painted. When he was not padding through the Kentucky forest or slinking about bird-abundant Feliciana Parish, he was flat-boating on the Mississippi and Ohio, exploring Florida's St. Johns River or sailing along Louisiana's Gulf Coast. In Labrador he hunted seals, in the Dakotas buffalo. He traveled up the Big Muddy to the Rocky Mountains. Everywhere he painted birds magnificently, sometimes painted animals almost as well...
...also wrote. Writer-Naturalist Donald Culross Peattie has got together at last the best of Writer-Naturalist Audubon's random writings. They are published in a large, handsome volume, largely and handsomely illustrated with 15 11½-by-15-inch color reproductions of birds and beasts by Audubon, one landscape by Audubon, one animal picture by Son John Woodhouse Audubon, one Audubon self-portrait...
Included in the Audubon exhibit are original sketches by the naturalist-artist of the cat-bird, screech, owl the Carolina parrot (now extinct), belted kingfisher, white-throated sparrow, and chuck-will's widow. Also shown are four volumes of the huge "Birds of America" published in the years 1827 to 1838. There are original letters written by Audubon, one of them carrying his personal seal, marked by a wild turkey and the motto "America My Country...
Last week Executive Director John H. Baker of the National Audubon Societies surveyed by air a lifeless desert, populated only by spinning whirlwinds of sand and hot ashes, where a green wilderness used to teem with birds-ibis, herons, cranes, ducks, snowy egrets...