Audubon, excerpts from Ornithological Biography

Here are links to the Audubon essays from Ornithological Biography (1831-39).  All of these, with the exception of the last, are pdfs, made from my edition of Audubon's Writings and Drawings (Library of America, 1999).  If you want to rotate them in order to read them online (rather than printing them out), just download the pdf.   The bird biographies are "The Great-footed Hawk"; :"The Carolina Parrot"; "The White-headed Eagle"; "The Passenger Pigeon"; "The Ivory-Billed Woodpecker"; and the "Common Gannet".   For comparative purposes, I am also including the chapter on "The Slaughter of the Pigeons" from Cooper's The Pioneers  (1823), which was likely one of Audubon's sources.