Under a Wild Sky (70 page)

Audubon & Bakewell,
129–31
,
134

Audubon's shearwater,
287

Audubon's warbler,
287

auks, great,
279

Aumack, Jacob,
169–71
,
174–76
,
325
n

Bachman, Harriet,
269
,
290

Bachman, John,
269
,
275
,
279
,
280
,
282
,
283
,
287
,
288
,
290
,
344
n
,
345
n
,
346
n

Bachman's sparrow,
287

Bakewell, Benjamin,
74
,
75
,
111

Bakewell, Tom,
129
,
130
,
134
,
137
,
161
,
163
,
165
,
321
n
,
324
n

Bakewell, William,
67–69
,
103
,
130
,
183
,
312
n
,
314–15
n

Bakewell, William, Jr.,
132
,
137
,
183
,
241
,
250
,
286
,
291

bald eagles,
35
,
60
,
82
,
111
,
157–61
,
174
,
323
n

Bank of Kentucky,
164–65

Bank of the United States,
164

Banks, Joseph,
231

barn owls,
170

barred owls,
171
,
180
,
287

Bartram, John,
57

Bartram, Nancy (“Anna”),
59
,
63
,
64
,
308
n
,
310
n

Bartram, William,
11
,
57–59
,
61–64
,
83–85
,
107
,
115
,
267
,
269
,
276
,
307–8
n
,
316
n

Bartram's vireo,
286

bats,
108
,
142–43
,
145

bears,
35
,
62
,
81
,
91
,
97
,
136
,
138–39
,
144
,
260–61
; grizzly,
324
n

beavers,
35

beetles,
31
,
142

Bendersky, Gordon,
346
n

“Big Bone Lick,”
39

Bird of Washington,
156–61
,
281
,
323–24
nn

Birds of America, The
(Audubon),
208
,
225
,
227–28
,
230
,
231
,
236
,
239
,
250–52
,
255
,
272
,
279
,
286
,
290
,
292
,
329
n
,
340
n
,
345
n
; completion of,
277
,
279–80
,
282
,
287
,
291
;
Havell's engravings for,
234–36
,
242
,
252
,
254
,
256
,
268
,
270–71
,
278
,
282
,
287
,
292
; Lizars's engravings for,
216–17
,
222
,
232
; reviews of,
240
,
275
,
283
,
344
n
; subscriptions to,
216
,
221
,
226–29
,
236
,
237
,
240
,
241
,
244
,
247
,
250
,
253
,
277
,
278
,
292
,
341
n
,
345
n
; text for,
257–59
; Victor's involvement with,
221
,
268
,
271
,
276
,
278
,
279
,
292
,
341
n
,
345
n
,
347
n

bison,
39
,
136
,
324
n

black-bellied darters,
188

blackbirds,
202
; crow,
see
boat-tailed grackles

black snakes,
116
,
224

blacks: free,
179
; Jefferson's attitude toward,
43
;
see also
slaves

blue jay,
60

blue-winged teal,
51

boat-tailed grackles,
182

Bohn (bookseller),
207–9
,
329
n

Bonaparte, Charles-Lucien,
8–10
,
12
,
14–15
,
184
,
247
,
253
,
255
,
299
n
,
300
n
,
338
n
,
344
n
,
345
n
; Audubon's criticism of,
192
,
344
n
; collaboration on
American Ornithology
of,
14
,
190
,
252
,
299
n
,
323
n
; in England,
225
,
228
,
232
,
280–81
; taxonomy of,
258

Bonaparte, Napoleon,
9
,
14
,
21
,
212

Bonaparte's flycatcher,
286

Boone, Daniel,
75
,
91
,
121–22
,
125
,
264–66
,
319
n

Boston Atlas
,
283

bottle-nosed dolphin,
195

Bowen, Samuel,
165–66

Bradford, Samuel,
85–86
,
104
,
107
,
316–18
nn

British Museum,
231
,
253

brown-headed cowbirds,
136

brown pelicans,
148
,
181
,
188
,
273
,
278–79

Buchanan, Robert,
347
n

buffalo,
287

Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de,
33–37
,
41
,
43–44
,
198
,
200
,
305
n

Bulow, John,
273–75
,
342
n

buntings,
279
; indigo,
317
n

Burns, Robert,
21
,
23–24

Burstein, Andrew,
298
n

Cajuns,
179

California condor,
159

California Gold Rush,
290

camera lucida,
284

Canada geese,
51
,
160
,
323
n

Canada warblers,
228

Canadian jays,
45
,
46
,
84

Cantwell, Robert,
303
n

canvasbacks,
51–52
,
153

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

Catesby, Mark,
59–62
,
84
,
85
,
196

catfish,
140
,
174

cedar waxwing,
146

Chalmers, John,
346
n

Charles II, King of England,
231

Charleston City Gazette and Commercial Advertiser
,
275

Cherokees,
122

Children, John,
231
,
244
,
247
,
251

chromolithography,
290

Cincinnati College, Western Museum of,
168
,
184

Civil War,
91
,
290

Clark, George Rogers,
77

Clark, William,
42
,
84
,
89
,
104

Clay, Henry,
169–70

coloring of prints,
see
hand coloring

Columbus, Christopher,
18

Colymbus glacialis
,
80
,
227

comparative anatomy,
38

condors, California,
159

Congress, U.S.,
170
,
250

conservation,
97
,
99

Continental Congress,
122

Corning, Howard,
328
n

Corvus corax
,
286

cougars,
91

cowbirds, brown-headed,
136

coyotes,
115

Cramer, Zadok,
90
,
311
n

cranes,
16
,
58
,
239
; sandhill,
112
; whooping,
29
,
110–11
,
214

crow blackbirds,
see
boat-tailed grackles

crows,
63
,
171

cuckoos,
19
; yellow-billed,
228

Dacosta, François,
66
,
72
,
74–75

Dallett, Francis James,
298
n

darters, black-bellied,
188

David, Jacques-Louis,
11
,
14
,
17
,
69
,
99
,
184
,
264
,
280
,
344
n

deathbed portraits,
167
,
168

Declaration of Independence,
30
,
47

deer,
35
,
39
,
57
,
62
,
91
,
97
,
133
,
170
; white-tailed,
136

degeneration, Buffon's theory of,
36–37
,
41
,
44
,
198

DeLatte, Carolyn,
321
n

Delos
(ship),
193–97

dolphin, bottle-nosed,
195

Douglas, Harriet,
226

doves, rock,
152

Drinker, Elizabeth,
306
n

ducks,
50–52
,
70
,
82
,
91
,
101
,
124
,
137–39
,
147
,
153
,
156
,
170
,
174
,
177
,
180
,
214–15
; canvasback,
51–52
,
153
; mallard,
50
,
153
; redhead,
50
; wood,
6
,
89
,
104
,
185

Duncan, William,
27
,
28
,
47
,
48
,
50
,
52–53
,
80–82
,
84
,
115

eagles,
16
,
19
,
93
,
156–61
,
209
,
289
; bald,
35
,
60
,
82
,
111
,
157–61
,
174
,
239
,
240
,
323
n
; golden,
157
,
159
,
160
,
240

earthquakes,
262–63

Edinburgh Journal of Science
,
310
n

Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal
,
211

Edinburgh University,
211
,
218
,
231
,
256
,
329
n
,
330
n

egrets,
278

Elements of Botany
(Bartram),
59

elk,
39
,
43
,
91

Encyclopaedia Britannica
,
256

engraving,
49
,
60–62
,
84–86
,
196
,
213
; of
Birds of America
,
215
,
216
,
220
,
228
,
232–37
,
242
,
244
,
252
,
254
,
256
,
268
,
270–71
,
278
,
282
,
291–92