Under a Wild Sky (73 page)

Tanagra rubra
,
3

taxidermy,
100
,
168
; toxic chemicals used in,
288

taxonomies: of Audubon,
159
,
173
,
286
; of Bonaparte,
9–10
,
228
,
258
; of Buffon,
34
,
35
; of Linnaeus,
30–34
,
44
,
61
,
256
,
258
,
281
; of Wilson,
12
,
258

teal,
51
; blue-winged,
51
; green-winged,
137–38

tell-tale godwits,
273
,
291–92

terns,
19

Thani, Sheik Hamad bin-Khalifa Al,
292

Thomas, William,
66

thrushes,
185
; wood,
46
,
246

Transylvania Company,
91
,
122–23

Transylvania University,
145

Travels through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida
(Bartram),
57–59
,
307
n

Treasury Department, U.S.,
275

Trinity Cemetery (New York),
291

Troculus colubris
,
65

Troglodytes hyemalis
,
18

trogons,
19

trumpeter swans,
136

Turdus polyglottus
,
87

turkey buzzards,
170
,
209
,
218–20
,
281

turkeys, wild,
6
,
35
,
58
,
91
,
192
,
228
,
239
,
245
,
251
,
282
; drawings of,
16
,
97
,
205
,
214
,
218
; hunting of,
89
,
94
,
133
; natural history of,
93–97
,
240
,
257
,
313
n
; as owls' prey,
147
; Wilson's encounter with,
109

turtles,
58

Vanderlyn, John,
181
,
190

vireos, Bartram's,
286

Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America, The
,
283
,
287–88

vultures,
82
,
287
; turkey,
see
turkey buzzards

Wallace, William,
22

War of 1812,
130–31
,
164
,
170

warblers,
19
,
63
,
93
,
136
,
185
,
186
; Audubon's,
287
; autumnal,
170
; Canada,
228
; MacGillivray's,
286–87
; prothonotary,
228
,
234
,
333
n
; Rathbone,
286
; Swainson's,
286
; yellow-poll,
195
; yellow-rumped,
170
; yellow-throated,
186

Ward, Henry,
268–72

Washington, George,
40
,
69

waterfowl,
15–16
,
123
,
137
; hunting of,
50–52
,
69–70
,
78
,
124
,
137–39
;
see also
ducks
;
geese
;
swans

Waterton, Charles,
217
,
280
,
281
,
289
,
344
n

waxwing, cedar,
146

Werner, Abraham Gottlob,
211

Wernerian Natural History Society,
211
,
218–20
,
222
,
224
,
231

western tanager,
105

whippoorwills,
63
,
112

white pelicans,
148–49

white-tailed deer,
136

whooping cranes,
29
,
110–11
,
214

widgeon,
51

Williams, George Alfred,
333
n

Wilson, Alexander,
11
,
21–27
,
53–55
,
59–60
,
65
,
104–17
,
137
,
176
,
180
,
202
,
254
,
255
,
271
,
286
,
301–4
nn
,
306
n
,
315
nn
,
318
nn
,
322
n
; and Academy of Science,
12
,
114–15
,
189–90
,
314
n
,
318
n
; Audubon's criticism of,
12
,
187
; Bachman and,
269
,
275
; Bartram and,
59
,
62–64
,
84
; death of,
12
,
13
,
104
,
115
; engraving of drawings by,
84
,
86
,
196
; hunting of waterfowl by,
50–52
; immigration to America of,
27–29
; Jefferson and,
44–47
; Lewis and,
104–5
; misidentification of birds by,
115
,
157
,
170
,
299
n
,
323
n
; Niagara Falls trip of,
80–83
; Ord and,
13
,
14
,
16
,
114
,
115
,
302
n
,
309
n
,
317
n
; passenger pigeon flock observed by,
152
; in Philadelphia,
11–12
,
28
,
47–50
,
52–53
,
83–86
,
104
; poetry of,
22–26
,
308
n
; prose style of,
46–47
; quality of drawings by,
46–47
,
102
; romantic entanglements of,
24
,
25
,
55–56
,
63
,
308
n
,
310
n
; Southern expedition of,
105–7
; taxonomy of,
258
; teaching jobs of,
50
,
53
,
56
,
62–64
,
80
,
81
,
85
; visit to Audubon of,
109–12
,
168
,
259
,
316
n
,
317
nn
; see also
American Ornithology

Wilson, James,
256

wingshooting,
50
,
98–99

winter wrens,
18

wolves,
35
,
81
,
82
,
126
,
136
,
155
,
260
,
287
,
324
n

woodcock,
50
,
121
,
139
,
170

wood ducks,
6
,
89
,
104
,
185

woodpeckers,
63
,
116
,
282
; ivory-billed,
106–7
,
174
,
313
n
; pileated,
106
; redheaded,
303
n

wood pewees,
186

wood thrushes,
46
,
246

Wren, Christopher,
231

wrens,
93
,
108
; winter,
18

Yale University, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at,
328
n

yellow-billed cuckoos,
228

yellow fever,
19
,
47–48
,
53
,
65
,
191

yellow-poll warblers,
195

yellow-throated warblers,
186

William Souder is an award-winning journalist and the author of three books.
A Plague of Frogs: Unraveling an Environmental Mystery
explores an outbreak of deformed frogs across North America.
Under a Wild Sky: John James Audubon and the Making of “The Birds of America”
was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His most recent book,
On a Farther Shore: The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson
was named a
New York Times
Notable Book of 2012. Souder lives in Grant, Minnesota.

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