"Beechgrove," William Garrett Johnson's plantation house near St. Francisville, West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, where Mrs. Audubon lived and taught from 1827 to 1829 _Facing_ 6 John Bachman's house in Charleston, South Carolina _Facing_ 6 Early drawing in water color of the Carolina Parrot on branch of the hickory, 1811, hitherto unpublished _Facing_ 20 John Bachman at thirty-two. After an engraving by Charles C. Wright of a portrait by A. Fisher _Facing_ 32 Robert Havell at eighty-five. After a photograph taken shortly before his death in 1878 _Facing_ 32 Letter of Dr. George Parkman to Audubon, May 25, 1833 43 Pileated Woodpeckers on the "Raccoon Grape," _The Birds of America_, Plate CXI. After the original engraving by Robert Havell, 1831. Color _Facing_ 46 Letter of Robert Havell to Audubon, June 15, 1833 51 John George Children _Facing_ 64 Edward Harris _Facing_ 64 John Bachman _Facing_ 72 George Ord _Facing_ 72 Samuel Latham Mitchell _Facing_ 72 Charles Waterton _Facing_ 72 Dr. Thomas Cooper, President of South Carolina College. After a contemporary silhouette 78 Vindication of Audubon's representation of the fangs of the southern rattlesnake as recurved at their tips. Detail from _The Birds of America_, Plate XXI, and photograph of the skull of a recent Florida specimen _Facing_ 80 Bluebirds on a stalk of the "great Mullein," _The Birds of America_, Plate CXIII. After the original engraving by Robert Havell, 1831. Color _Facing_ 100 William Swainson _Facing_ 118 Thomas Nuttall _Facing_ 118 Charles Lucien Bonaparte _Facing_ 118 Constantine Samuel Rafinesque _Facing_ 118 Audubon. After an engraving by H. B. Hall of a portrait painted by Henry Inman in 1833 _Facing_ 126 Letter of William MacGillivray to Audubon, October 22, 1834 _Facing_ 131 Part of the original draft of Audubon's manuscript for the Introduction to Volume II of the _Ornithological Biography_, giving list of names of persons to whom Audubon carried credentials on his first visit to London in 1827 _Facing_ 133