page [30] 5 Jul 1901 (seq. 32)

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Salem, N.Y.
1901
July 5

It rained last evening from about 9 to 11. The
rain entering the ground for but a very short dis-
tance. To-day has been cloudy and threatening
with mercury around 80°, air sultry.

Miss Florence and I walked to the village
this A.M. It was too nearly raining to drive
to–day but we have had a very nice morning
in the garden and looking over one of the large
portfolios of original watercolors by J.J. & J.W.
Audubon. It was a rare treat of great delight
and we sat about the large dining room table
listening to what the ladies said as we
examined picture after picture. I noted the
following original watercolors by J.J. Audubon,
and reproduced in Audubon & Bachman's
Quadrupeds of North America :–

Lepus americanus (winter dress), one water color
of the scenery and mere outline of the hare,
sent to the engravers who wanted to work
on the picture, and a later water color of
the hare without the scenery.
Lepus americanus (summer dress). Two water colors
same as above
Canis (Vulpus) cinereo-argentatus. Swift Fox.
Histrix dorsata. Porcupine.
Tamias quadrivittatus. Four white-lined ground
squirrel. 2 ads [adults], 2 young on separate sheets
but brought on as one sheet in the Quadrupeds
The sheet with young is dated, May 20, 1841, N.Y.
The sheet with ads [adults] is dated Nov. 16, 1841, N.Y.
Tamias townseadi, dated May 16, 1841.