Under a Wild Sky (72 page)

Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands, The
(Catesby),
59–61

Naturalist's Library
,
212

Navigator, The
(Cramer),
311
n

Neill, Patrick,
213

New Madrid earthquake,
262–63

New Orleans, Battle of,
178

Newton, Isaac,
38
,
50
,
231
,
332
n

New-York Historical Society,
290

New York Lyceum,
15

nighthawk,
147–48

Nolte, Vincent,
130
,
193
,
198
,
200
,
320
n

non-descripts,
see
species
, new
Norway rats
,
133

Notes on the State of Virginia
(Jefferson),
40
,
41
,
43–45
,
47
,
305
n

Omega
(steamboat),
285

opossums,
251

Ord, George,
191
,
197
,
269
,
289
,
299
n
; continuation of
American Ornithology
by,
14
,
16
,
189–90
,
316
n
,
317
n
,
318
n
,
344
n
; enmity toward Audubon of,
13–17
,
253
,
281–82
,
292
,
300
n
,
317
n
,
323
n
,
338
n
,
344
n
; in London,
251
; Swainson and,
240
; Wilson and,
14
,
16
,
114
,
115
,
302
n
,
309
n
,
317
n

orioles,
63

Ornithological Biography
(Audubon),
3
,
18
,
29
,
45
,
65
,
80
,
87
,
104
,
121
,
132
,
146
,
163
,
195
,
227
,
246
,
272
,
286
; completion of,
287
; episodes in,
259–66
; Ord on,
282
; publication of,
257–58
,
268
; reviews of,
275
; writing of,
257–58
,
279

Orr, Charles,
52–56

Osages,
125

ospreys,
60
,
156

otters,
205
,
215
,
287
,
321
n

owls,
19
,
45
,
96
,
112
,
133
; barn,
170
; barred,
171
,
180
,
287
; great-horned,
147

Pacific
(ship),
246

Paine, Thomas,
105

Paisley Museum and Art Galleries,
301
n

Panic of 1819,
164

panthers,
82
; Florida,
58

parakeets, Carolina,
112
,
149–52
,
174
,
258
,
313
n
,
322
n

parrots,
19

partridges,
170
,
207
,
214

passenger pigeons,
67
,
78
,
112
,
149–50
,
152–56
,
258
,
313
n

Peale, Charles Willson,
84
,
346
n

Peale, Raphaelle,
346
n

Peale, Rembrandt,
111

Peale, Titian,
323
n

pelicans,
19
; brown,
148
,
181
,
188
,
273
,
278–79
; white,
148–49

Percy, Jane,
189
,
191
,
229

peregrine falcons,
30
,
132
,
174–75
,
214–15

petrels,
8
,
9

pewees,
186

pheasants,
207
,
209
,
211
,
236
; ring-necked,
136–37

Philadelphia Gazette
,
275

Philadelphia Museum,
84

phoebes,
67
,
69
,
71

pigeons,
50
; passenger,
67
,
78
,
112
,
149–50
,
152–56
,
258
,
313
n

pileated woodpeckers,
106

Pirrie family,
185–88

Plotus anhinga
,
132

plovers,
19

Polly
(ship),
74

Pope, Alexander,
22

porcupines,
35

Porter, Charlotte M.,
303–4
n

Port Folio, The
,
108
,
317
n

portraiture,
167
,
168
,
177–79
,
180
,
182
,
189
,
215

prothonotary warbler,
228
,
234
,
333
n

puffins,
279

purple finches,
146
,
228

quail,
50

Rabin, Jeanne,
18

Rafinesque, Constantine,
141–45
,
205
,
259
,
322
n

Rankin, Adam,
124
,
133–35
,
158
,
321
n

Rankin, Elizabeth,
124
,
128
,
133–35
,
321
n

raptors,
185
;
see also
eagles
;
falcons
;
hawks
;
kites
;
vultures

Rathbone, Hannah,
204
,
206
,
207
,
209
,
231
,
237
,
243–44

Rathbone, Richard,
193
,
198–202
,
204

Rathbone, Mrs. Richard,
205
,
237

Rathbone, William,
198–99
,
204

Rathbone warbler,
286

rats,
145
; Norway,
133

rattlesnakes,
8
,
35
,
192–93
,
222–25
; Bartram's encounter with,
58
,
307
n
; Catesby's painting of,
62
; drawing of mockingbirds and,
186–87
,
214
,
222
,
224
,
281
,
344
nn
; Wilson's encounter with,
81–82
,
308
n

ravens,
82
,
286

redhead ducks,
50

red-headed woodpeckers,
303
n

red-shouldered hawks,
185

red-tailed hawks,
163

Ree's Cyclopedia
,
85

Regulators,
91

reproductive compatibility,
32
,
34

Revolutionary War,
40
,
41
,
55
,
77
,
124

Rice, Nate,
324
n

rifles,
97

ring-necked pheasants,
136–37

robins,
6

rock doves,
152

Romans, ancient,
38

Roscoe, William,
199
,
200

roseate spoonbills,
278

Royal Botanical Garden, French,
33

Royal Institution, British,
199–200
,
204
,
205
,
207
,
215–17

Royal Navy,
231

Royal Society, London,
38
,
231
,
251

Rozier, Ferdinand,
74–78
,
87
,
92
,
103
,
110
,
121
,
123
,
125
,
166
,
310
n
,
311
n

ruby-throated hummingbirds,
65

Rush, Benjamin,
47–48

sandhill cranes,
112

sandpipers,
19

Say, Thomas,
114–15
,
193

scarlet tanager,
3

Scolopax minor
,
121

Scott, Walter,
210
,
212
,
225
,
329
n

Selby, Prideaux John,
212–14
,
221
,
228
,
232
,
236

Seminoles,
57
,
58

Sharp, William,
25–26

Shawnees,
91
,
319
n

shearwaters,
19
; Audubon's,
287

shotguns,
97–98

Sibley, David Allen,
323
nn

Simon, Grant Miles,
306
n

skunks,
8

slaves,
19
,
40
,
43
,
203
,
260
,
269
; in Florida,
273–75
; in Kentucky,
91
,
92
,
125
,
135
,
165
; in Saint-Domingue,
18
,
20
; in Louisiana,
179
,
261–62

Smith, John,
65

snake-birds,
132
,
175

snakes,
28
,
62
,
145
; black,
116
,
224
;
see also
rattlesnakes

snipes,
273
,
291–92

songbirds,
180
;
see also specific species

Spark
(ship),
276

sparrows: Bachman's,
287
; house,
136
; swamp,
287

species,
30–32
,
34
,
44
; new,
156
,
177
,
188
,
268
,
275
,
286

specimens,
67
,
69
,
97
,
99
,
188
,
254
; live-caught,
62
; in Philadelphia Museum,
84
; posing of,
16
,
71
; preparation of,
100–101
,
288

Speed, Captain James,
124

spoonbills, roseate,
278

squirrels,
28
,
97
,
170
,
265
; flying,
43
; gray,
287

Stamford, Lord,
207

Stanley, Edward, Lord,
200–201

starlings,
136

steamboats,
135
,
165

Stebbins, Theodore E., Jr.,
317
n

Streshinsky, Shirley,
333
n

Swainson, William,
239–42
,
253
,
255–56
,
335
n
,
336
n
,
344
n

Swainson's warbler,
286

swallows,
19
,
61

swamp sparrows,
287

swans,
16
,
50
,
126
,
156
,
188
; trumpeter,
136

Swift
(ship),
27–28

Sylvia aestiva
,
195

Syme, John,
215

Systema Naturae
(Linnaeus),
30–32

tanagers: scarlet,
3
; western,
105