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Enlightenment,
30
,
41

etching,
233–34

evolution,
32
,
36
; Darwinian,
35

extinction,
32
,
41
,
106
,
149–50

Falco
:
F. borealis
,
163
;
F. peregrinus
,
30
;
F. plumbeus
,
45
;
F. rusticolus
,
30

falcons: gyrfalcon,
30
; peregrine,
30
,
132
,
174–76
,
214

finches: goldfinch,
63
,
146–47
; purple,
146
,
228

flamingos,
276

flatboats,
76–77
,
88–89

flintlocks,
98

flycatchers,
110
; Bonaparte's,
286

flying squirrels,
43

Ford, Alice,
309
n
,
312
n
,
318
n
,
320
n
,
321
n
,
327–29
nn
,
333–34
nn
,
336
n
,
337
n
,
344
n
,
347
n

Foresters, The
(Wilson),
84

fossils,
32–33
,
37–42

foxes,
35

Franklin, Benjamin,
7
,
39
,
289

free blacks,
179

French Revolution,
19

frigate birds,
19

geese,
50
,
52
,
91
,
174
,
180
,
239
; Canada,
51
,
160
,
323
n

genera,
31
,
32
,
44

George IV, King of England,
236

Ghent, Treaty of,
170

Gifford, Euphemia,
312
n

godwits, tell-tale,
273
,
291–92

golden eagles,
157
,
159
,
160
,
240

goldfinches,
63
,
146–47

gopher turtles,
58

Gordon, Ann Bakewell,
199
,
200

grackles, boat-tailed,
182

gray squirrels,
287

great auks,
279

great blue herons,
146

great-footed hawks,
see
peregrine falcons

great horned owl,
147

great northern diver,
227

Great Pine Swamp (Pennsylvania),
248

Greeks, ancient,
33

green-winged teals,
137–38

Grosart, Alexander,
301
n
,
302
n
,
316
n

grosbeaks,
19

grouse,
50
,
81
,
112
,
133
,
147
,
279

Grus americana
,
29

gulls,
19

gyrfalcons,
30

habitat, loss of,
137
,
150

Haines, Reuben,
192
,
299
n

Halley, Edmond,
231

hand coloring,
60–61
,
84
,
115
,
213
; of
Birds of America
,
216
,
232
,
233
,
235
,
242
,
252
,
270

Harlan, Richard,
247
,
251
,
340
n
,
346
n

Harris, Ed,
284–85

Harvard University, Houghton Library,
301
n
,
328
n

Havell, Daniel,
233

Havell, Robert,
233–36
,
238
,
241
,
242
,
255
,
333
nn
,
344
n

Havell, Robert, Jr.,
234
,
238
,
244
,
247
,
279
,
333
nn
,
336
n
,
341
nn
,
344
n
; engraving of plates for
Birds of America
by,
234
,
235
,
242
,
252–53
,
254
,
256
,
268
,
270–71
,
278
,
282
,
287
,
292
; Lucy's correspondence with,
257
,
270
,
271
; payments to,
236
,
255
; retirement in America of,
291

Havell, Mrs. Robert, Jr.,
257
,
266
,
340
n

hawks,
63
,
115
,
127
,
155–56
,
239
; great-footed,
see
peregrine falcon
;
red-shouldered
,
185
; red-tailed,
163

Henderson, Richard,
121–22

Henderson
(steamboat),
165

herons,
19
,
180
,
278
; great blue,
146

Herrick, Francis Hobart,
309
n
,
317
n
,
318
n
,
327
n
,
336
n
,
348
n

Hodgson, Adam,
200
,
202

Hope
(ship),
73

horses, wild,
58

House of Representatives, U.S.,
170

house sparrows,
136

hummingbirds, ruby-throated,
65

Hunter, Clark,
301–2
n
,
318
n

hunting,
50–52
,
69–70
,
94
,
97–99
,
124
,
136–39
,
170
,
177
,
287
; by Boone,
264–66
; in England,
207
,
236
; market,
137
,
150
; of passenger pigeons,
154
,
155

Indians,
29
,
42
,
82
,
89
,
90
,
91
,
122
,
139
,
171
,
264
; Buffon's assessment of,
37
,
40
,
43
; in Florida,
13
,
57
,
58
; in Revolutionary War,
77
; of Saint-Domingue,
18
; Wilson and,
112
,
113

indigo buntings,
317
n

intaglio,
233

ivory-billed woodpeckers,
106–7
,
174
,
313
n

Jackson, Andrew,
190
,
248
,
250

Jameson, Robert,
211–14
,
218–20
,
226
,
256

Jardine, William,
212
,
214
,
215
,
220
,
221
,
236

jays,
83
,
269
; blue,
60
; Canadian,
45
,
46
,
84

Jefferson, Thomas,
11
,
14
,
29
,
40–47
,
55
,
58
,
83–86
,
305
n

John James Audubon State Park Museum,
291

J. Whatman Company,
252

Kentucky Insurance Company,
164

Kidd, Joseph Bartholomew,
226
,
241
,
278

kingfishers,
71
; belted,
102

King's Cabinet of Natural History, French,
33

kites, Mississippi,
45
,
186
,
271
,
185

Klauber, Laurence M.,
331
n
,
344
n

Ku Klux Klan,
91

Lawson, Alexander,
14–15
,
62
,
84
,
86
,
104
,
108
,
112
,
217
,
253

Leech, Isaac,
80–83

Lehman, George,
248
,
268
,
271–73
,
278

Leonardo da Vinci,
33

Lesueur, Charles-Alexandre,
15
,
299
n

Lewis, Meriwether,
42
,
84
,
89
,
104–5
,
114

Linnaeus, Carolus,
30–34
,
44
,
45
,
57
,
59
,
61
,
256
,
258
,
303
n

lizards,
145

Lizars, William Home,
213–17
,
222
,
226
,
228
,
229
,
232–36
,
255
,
282
,
329
n
,
333–34
nn

Lloyd, Phoebe,
346
n

Lloyd, Thomas,
207

Long, Stephen Harriman,
9

long hunts,
319
n

loons,
80
,
227

Loudon, John,
239–40

Loudon's
magazine,
240

Louis XV, King of France,
33

Louisiana Purchase,
14
,
21
,
29

Louisiana tanager,
105

Low, Suzanne M.,
333
nn

Lukens, Isaiah,
299
n

lynx,
96

MacGillivray, William,
256–58
,
279
,
338
n
,
341
n

MacGillivray's warbler,
286–87

Magnet
(steamboat),
5

malaria,
19

mallards,
50
,
153

mammoth fossils,
37–42

Marion
(ship),
276

market hunting,
137
,
150

Martin, Maria,
269
,
282
,
287
,
288
,
290

Mary, Queen of Scots,
210

Mason, Joseph,
13
,
168–70
,
172
,
174
,
175
,
177
,
178
,
181
,
182
,
185–89
,
193

Mather, Cotton,
38

McEwan, Thomas,
341
n

McLean, Martha,
24–26

Meadowbank, Lord,
226

meadowlarks,
170

Mease, James,
7–11

migration,
58
,
61
; of waterfowl,
50–52
,
70
,
78
,
137
,
170

Miller, Daniel,
318
nn

Miller, James,
344
n

Miller, Sarah,
318
nn

Mississippi kites,
45
,
185
,
186
,
271

Missouri Compromise,
170

mockingbirds,
87
,
185
,
186
,
214
,
222
,
224
,
281
,
344
nn

Mongols,
38–39

Monthly American Journal of Geology and

Natural History
,
275

moose,
97

morphology,
30
,
32
,
34
,
36
,
140
,
188
,
255

Morton, Lord and Lady,
225–26

mussels,
174

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