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All are numbered and have a seal in the bottom margin to demonstrate their authenticity. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrinted on heavy Mohawk paper that is recommended by the Library of Congress for archives, the paper is specially toned to match the average paper color of the antique originals.","brand":"AUDUBO","offers":[{"title":"11.5x20","offer_id":1209647176,"sku":"1703","price":500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0761\/3295\/products\/1703-Bonaparte-Flycatcher.jpeg?v=1533162673"},{"product_id":"baltimore-oriole-princeton-print","title":"Baltimore Oriole Princeton Print","description":"Northern Oriole, Icterus galbula \u003cbr\u003eFlora: tulip tree, Liriodendron tulipifera \u003cbr\u003ePrint size: 26 1\/4\" x 39 1\/4\"; image size: 19 1\/2\" x 24 3\/4\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrinceton Audubon Limited Edition - produced 1985 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis print, of two male orioles and a female (shown clinging to the nest), is from a composition painted in Louisiana in 1822 and completed in 1825. The artist, Joseph Mason, also worked on the background.\u003cbr\u003eMore than half a century earlier, the Swedish naturalist Linnaeus, in a scientific description of this orange and black American oriole, had named the bird in honor of Cecil Calvert, second Baron of Baltimore, because Lord Baltimore's family colors were also orange and black.\u003cbr\u003eNow known as the northern oriole, its mellow whistle, loud, clear, and rather low-pitched, is a sure sign of the retreat of winter. The nest is a remarkable example of design and craftsmanship created by the female alone. First, she ties suspension strings to a long, sweeping branch, forming the warp through which to weave an assortment of plant fibers, milkweed stalks, strips of bark, horse hair, or cord. The completed structure is gourd shaped, gray colored, and lined with feathers, plant down, or wool. Audubon noted that in the South the birds built a loosely-woven nest, \"in such a manner that the air can easily pass through it,\" yet, if farther North, \"they would have formed it of the warmest and softest materials.\" \u003cbr\u003eEHJ\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrinceton Audubon prints are direct-camera facsimile lithographs of the Robert Havell Jr. (1793-1878) engravings for The Birds of America (1827-38). Princeton's Double elephant Folio prints are issued in limited editions of 500 or 1500 prints. All are numbered and have a seal in the bottom margin to demonstrate their authenticity. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrinted on heavy Mohawk paper that is recommended by the Library of Congress for archives, the paper is specially toned to match the average paper color of the antique originals.","brand":"AUDUBO","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":1209647216,"sku":"1704","price":800.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0761\/3295\/products\/1704-Baltimore-Oriole.jpeg?v=1533162002"},{"product_id":"blue-yellowbacked-warbler-princeton-print","title":"Blue Yellow-Backed Warbler Princeton Print","description":"Northern Parula Warbler, Parula americana \u003cbr\u003eFlora: red or copper iris, Iris fulva \u003cbr\u003ePrint size: 26 1\/4\" x 39 1\/4\"; image size: 11 1\/2\" x 18 1\/2\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrinceton Audubon Limited Edition - produced 1985 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAudubon's young assistant, Joseph Mason, painted the iris which Audubon called \"Louisiana Flag.\"\u003cbr\u003eAudubon wrote in his journal for March 26, 1821, that Joseph Mason had shot a male \"Blue Yellow Back Warbler.\" On the following day Audubon painted both the warbler and its mate, she eyeing an inchworm.\u003cbr\u003eThe northern parula warbler is a grayish-blue bird with a distinctive yellowish-green patch on its back and a buzzing song that during breeding season has been described as a \"sizzling trill.\" The name \"parula,\" meaning a diminutive Parus or titmouse, was given this warbler because of its chickadee-like habit of foraging for food; poking, picking, and hanging on the underside of a limb. Moss is its characteristic nesting site. In the south, it is associated with woodlands where Spanish moss hangs from the trees; in other areas, where Usnea or beard moss is common.\u003cbr\u003eEHJ \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrinceton Audubon prints are direct-camera facsimile lithographs of the Robert Havell Jr. (1793-1878) engravings for The Birds of America (1827-38). Princeton's Double elephant Folio prints are issued in limited editions of 500 or 1500 prints. All are numbered and have a seal in the bottom margin to demonstrate their authenticity. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrinted on heavy Mohawk paper that is recommended by the Library of Congress for archives, the paper is specially toned to match the average paper color of the antique originals.","brand":"AUDUBO","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":1209647224,"sku":"1705","price":500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0761\/3295\/products\/1705-Blue-Yellow-Backed-Warbler.jpeg?v=1533162639"},{"product_id":"carolina-turtle-dove-princeton-print","title":"Carolina Turtle Dove Princeton Print","description":"Mourning Dove, Zenaida macroura \u003cbr\u003eFlora: silky camelia, or Virginia Stewartia, Stewartia Malachodendron\u003cbr\u003e Print size: 26 1\/4\" x 39 1\/4\"; image size: 19 1\/2\" x 24 1\/2\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Princeton Audubon Limited Edition - produced 1985 \u003cbr\u003eProbably painted about 1825 in Louisiana. The pair of birds at bottom was apparently done first, since the limb on which the topmost bird sits is not connected to the branch on which its mate is perched.\u003cbr\u003eIn this painting Audubon attempted, as he wrote, to give \"a faithful representation of two as gentle pairs of Turtles [doves] as ever cooed their loves in the green woods. I have placed them on a branch of Stuartia, which you see ornamented with a profusion of white blossoms, emblematic of purity and chastity.\"\u003cbr\u003eThough this bird was known to Audubon as the Carolina turtle dove, its modern name is much more appropriate, for it is found throughout the United Sates and its call suggests hopeless sorrow. This abundant and widespread bird is equally at home in suburbs and farmlands, and the sharp whistling of its wings as it takes flight is as familiar as its mournful call.\u003cbr\u003eEHJ \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrinceton Audubon prints are direct-camera facsimile lithographs of the Robert Havell Jr. (1793-1878) engravings for The Birds of America (1827-38). Princeton's Double elephant Folio prints are issued in limited editions of 500 or 1500 prints. All are numbered and have a seal in the bottom margin to demonstrate their authenticity. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrinted on heavy Mohawk paper that is recommended by the Library of Congress for archives, the paper is specially toned to match the average paper color of the antique originals.","brand":"AUDUBO","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":1209647248,"sku":"1706","price":850.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0761\/3295\/products\/1706-Carolina-Turtle-Dove.jpeg?v=1533163001"},{"product_id":"carolina-parrot-princeton-print","title":"Carolina Parrot Princeton Print","description":"Carolina Parakeet, Conuropsis carolinensis \u003cbr\u003eFlora: cocklebur, Xanthium strumarium \u003cbr\u003ePrint size: 26 1\/4\" x 39 1\/4\"; image size: 23 1\/2\" x 32\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrinceton Audubon Limited Edition - produced 1985 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis print is based on a painting composed in Louisiana about 1825 and inscribed at the lower right: \"The upper Specimen was shot near Bayou Sarah and appeared so uncommon having 14 Tail feathers all 7 sizes distinct and firmly affixed in 14 different receptacles that I drew it more to verify one of those astonishing fits of Nature than any thing else-it was a female-The Green headed [a young bird] is also a singular although not so uncommon a Variety as the above one-Louisianna-December-J.J. Audubon.\"\u003cbr\u003eAudubon wrote of these parakeets, \"The woods are the habitation best fitted for them, and there the richness of their plumage, their beautiful mode of flight, and even their screams, afford welcome intimation that our darkest forests and most sequestered swamps are not destitute of charms.\" In later years he was to write: \"Our Parakeets are rapidly diminishing in number, and in some districts, where twenty-five years ago they were plentiful, scarcely any are now to be seen.\"\u003cbr\u003eThis gorgeous bird is now extinct. And little wonder. Its plumage could be sold for millinery, and it was prized as a cage bird both here and abroad. To make matters worse, since it was considered excellent eating and was destructive to a variety of cultivated crops, it was relentlessly destroyed by man.\u003cbr\u003eEHJ \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrinceton Audubon prints are direct-camera facsimile lithographs of the Robert Havell Jr. (1793-1878) engravings for The Birds of America (1827-38). Princeton's Double elephant Folio prints are issued in limited editions of 500 or 1500 prints. All are numbered and have a seal in the bottom margin to demonstrate their authenticity. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrinted on heavy Mohawk paper that is recommended by the Library of Congress for archives, the paper is specially toned to match the average paper color of the antique originals.","brand":"AUDUBO","offers":[{"title":"23.5x32","offer_id":1209647260,"sku":"1707","price":1200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0761\/3295\/products\/1707-Carolina-Parrot.jpeg?v=1533162991"},{"product_id":"vigors-warbler-princeton-print","title":"Vigor's Warbler Princeton Print","description":"Pine Warbler, Dendroica pinus \u003cbr\u003eFlora: spiderwort, Tradescantia ohiensis \u003cbr\u003ePrint size: 26 1\/4\" x 39 1\/4\"; image size: 11 1\/2\" x 18 1\/2\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrinceton Audubon Limited Edition - produced 1985 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith a name difficult to enunciate and impossible to locate in a bird guide, Vigors's warbler is in truth an immature pine warbler. Considering that the bird has also been known as a pine-creeping warbler or a pine creeper because of its preference for evergreen habitat, this portrait seems executed on an unlikely perch-a spiderwort plant. But that is exactly where Audubon saw it one day in May 1812 during a visit to Mill Grove, the farm he once owned on Perkiomen Creek, near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. Later, thinking it to be an undiscovered species, he named it \"Vigors's Warbler\" in honor or the English naturalist Nicholas A. Vigors, whom he met in London in 1828.\u003cbr\u003eThe bird is done in pastel, the spiderwort in water color.\u003cbr\u003eEHJ \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrinceton Audubon prints are direct-camera facsimile lithographs of the Robert Havell Jr. (1793-1878) engravings for The Birds of America (1827-38). Princeton's Double elephant Folio prints are issued in limited editions of 500 or 1500 prints. All are numbered and have a seal in the bottom margin to demonstrate their authenticity. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrinted on heavy Mohawk paper that is recommended by the Library of Congress for archives, the paper is specially toned to match the average paper color of the antique originals.","brand":"AUDUBO","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":1209647264,"sku":"1708","price":500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0761\/3295\/products\/1708-Vigors-Warbler.jpeg?v=1533127085"},{"product_id":"blackbilled-cuckoo-princeton-print","title":"Black-Billed Cuckoo Princeton Print","description":"Print size: 26 1\/4\" x 39 1\/4\"; image size: 25 1\/2 x 20\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Princeton Audubon Limited Edition - produced 1985 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrinceton Audubon prints are direct-camera facsimile lithographs of the Robert Havell Jr. (1793-1878) engravings for The Birds of America (1827-38). Princeton's Double elephant Folio prints are issued in limited editions of 500 or 1500 prints. All are numbered and have a seal in the bottom margin to demonstrate their authenticity. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrinted on heavy Mohawk paper that is recommended by the Library of Congress for archives, the paper is specially toned to match the average paper color of the antique originals.","brand":"AUDUBO","offers":[{"title":"25x171\/4","offer_id":1209647272,"sku":"1709","price":500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0761\/3295\/products\/1709-Black-Billed-Cuckoo.jpeg?v=1533162593"},{"product_id":"american-goldfinch-princeton-print","title":"American Goldfinch Princeton Print","description":"Carduelis tristis \u003cbr\u003eFlora: bull thistle, Cirsium vulgare \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis print is based on a composition probably painted in August 1824 in New York State, for Audubon wrote: \"In ascending along the shores of the Mohawk river, in the month of August, I have met more of these pretty birds in the course of a day's walk than anywhere else, and whenever a thistle was to be seen along either bank of the New York Canal, it was ornamented with one or more Goldfinches.\"\u003cbr\u003eThe goldfinch, a joy to even the most casual observer, is common from ocean to ocean, and its flight call as it dips through the air, per-chic-o-ree, per-chic-o-ree, is as sweet as that of any caged canary. Dr. Frank M. Chapman, in his Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America, says that \"their song is delivered with an ecstasy and abandon which carries them off their feet, they circle over the field sowing the air with music.\"\u003cbr\u003eEHJ Print size: 26 1\/4\" x 39 1\/4\"; image size: 25 1\/2 x 20\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Princeton Audubon Limited Edition - produced 1985\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrinceton Audubon prints are direct-camera facsimile lithographs of the Robert Havell Jr. (1793-1878) engravings for The Birds of America (1827-38). Princeton's Double elephant Folio prints are issued in limited editions of 500 or 1500 prints. All are numbered and have a seal in the bottom margin to demonstrate their authenticity. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrinted on heavy Mohawk paper that is recommended by the Library of Congress for archives, the paper is specially toned to match the average paper color of the antique originals.","brand":"AUDUBO","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":1209647344,"sku":"1710","price":500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0761\/3295\/products\/1710-American-Goldfinch.jpeg?v=1533161685"},{"product_id":"rubythroated-hummingbird-princeton-print","title":"Ruby-Throated Hummingbird Princeton Print","description":"Ruby-throated Hummingbird, Archilochus colubris \u003cbr\u003eFlora: trumpet-flower or trumpet creeper, Campsis radicans \u003cbr\u003ePrint size: 26 1\/4\" x 39 1\/4\"; image size: 19 1\/2\" x 24 1\/2\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Princeton Audubon Limited Edition - produced 1985 \u003cbr\u003eThese birds were probably painted in Louisiana c. 1825.\u003cbr\u003eHummingbirds, found only in the New World, fascinated Americans and Europeans of Audubon's day. to gratify this widespread curiosity with a number of views of the diminutive ruby-throat, he placed ten of them together, although in nature they are too pugnacious to associate this closely.\u003cbr\u003eHe spoke glowingly of this bird of eastern North America: \"No sooner has the returned sun again introduced the vernal season, and caused millions of plants to expand their leaves and blossoms to the genial beams, than the little Hummingbird is seen advancing on fairy wings, carefully visiting every opening flower cup.\" And Frank M. Chapman, in his Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America, wrote, \"The Ruby-throat needs no song. Its beauty gives it distinction, and its wings make music.\"\u003cbr\u003eEHJ \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrinceton Audubon prints are direct-camera facsimile lithographs of the Robert Havell Jr. (1793-1878) engravings for The Birds of America (1827-38). Princeton's Double elephant Folio prints are issued in limited editions of 500 or 1500 prints. All are numbered and have a seal in the bottom margin to demonstrate their authenticity. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrinted on heavy Mohawk paper that is recommended by the Library of Congress for archives, the paper is specially toned to match the average paper color of the antique originals.","brand":"AUDUBO","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":1209647420,"sku":"1711","price":1200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0761\/3295\/products\/1711-Ruby-Throated-Hummingbird.jpeg?v=1533126196"},{"product_id":"painted-bunting-princeton-print","title":"Painted Bunting Princeton Print","description":"Painted Bunting, Passerina ciris \u003cbr\u003eFlora: the chickasaw plum, Prunus angustifolia \u003cbr\u003ePrint size: 26 1\/4\" x 39 1\/4\"; image size: 11 1\/2\" x 18 1\/2\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Princeton Audubon Limited Edition - produced 1985 \u003cbr\u003eThe Nonpareil, as this bird is sometimes called, is one of the most brilliantly colored birds of America. Audubon commented both on its peerless plumage and what he considered its pugnacity. In this composition painted in April 1821, five birds are perched on a sprig of a chickasaw plum sketched in by Joseph Mason. The female at the top carries nesting material, and the two mature and two immature males are engaged in a territorial squabble. While the males wear a crazy quilt of colors, the females are merely inconspicuous little green finches.\u003cbr\u003eIn Mexico, the painted bunting is quite a favorite cage bird; thus, Americans along the border are apt to speak of it as the Mexican canary. Reportedly, its bright, pleasing voice loses none of its quality in a cage, but the varied hues of its plumage diminish with time.\u003cbr\u003eEHJ\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrinceton Audubon prints are direct-camera facsimile lithographs of the Robert Havell Jr. (1793-1878) engravings for The Birds of America (1827-38). Princeton's Double elephant Folio prints are issued in limited editions of 500 or 1500 prints. All are numbered and have a seal in the bottom margin to demonstrate their authenticity. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrinted on heavy Mohawk paper that is recommended by the Library of Congress for archives, the paper is specially toned to match the average paper color of the antique originals.","brand":"AUDUBO","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":1209647448,"sku":"1712","price":500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0761\/3295\/products\/1712-Painted-Bunting.jpeg?v=1533125609"},{"product_id":"redshouldered-hawk-princeton-print","title":"Red-Shouldered Hawk Princeton Print","description":"Buteo lineatus \u003cbr\u003eFlora: possibly white oak, Quercus alba \u003cbr\u003ePrint size: 26 1\/4\" x 39 1\/4\"; image size: 25\" x 37\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrinceton Audubon Limited Edition - produced 1985 \u003cbr\u003ePainted in Louisiana in 1825.\u003cbr\u003eAudubon studied the habits of the pair of hawks represented here over a period of three years, and this devotion resulted in one of the finest works he did in Louisiana before sailing to Liverpool in 1826. \"The mutual attachment of the male and the female continues during live,\" Audubon wrote. \"They usually hunt in pairs during the whole year; and although they built a new nest every spring, they are fond of resorting to the same parts of the woods for that purpose.\"\u003cbr\u003eAlthough it has been known as the \"big chicken hawk,\" and \"hen hawk,\" only a small percentage of the red-shouldered hawk's food is made up of poultry. In truth, the bird is very valuable to the farmer, with ninety percent of its prey made up of mammals and insects injurious to his crops.\u003cbr\u003eEHJ\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrinceton Audubon prints are direct-camera facsimile lithographs of the Robert Havell Jr. (1793-1878) engravings for The Birds of America (1827-38). Princeton's Double elephant Folio prints are issued in limited editions of 500 or 1500 prints. All are numbered and have a seal in the bottom margin to demonstrate their authenticity. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrinted on heavy Mohawk paper that is recommended by the Library of Congress for archives, the paper is specially toned to match the average paper color of the antique originals.","brand":"AUDUBO","offers":[{"title":"25 x 37","offer_id":1209647452,"sku":"1713","price":800.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0761\/3295\/products\/1713-Red-Shouldered-Hawk.jpeg?v=1533167395"},{"product_id":"wood-thrush-princeton-print","title":"Wood Thrush Princeton Print","description":"Hylocichla mustelina\u003cbr\u003e Flora: Dogwood, Cornus florida\u003cbr\u003e Print size: 26 1\/4\" x 39 1\/4\"; image size: 12\" x 18 1\/2\" \u003cbr\u003ePrinceton Audubon Limited Edition - produced 1985 Based on a composition painted on April 21, 1822. Joseph Mason worked on the background.\"This bird is my greatest favourite of the feathered tribes of our woods. To it I owe much,\" Audubon wrote, and added a lengthy sentence of explication. \"How often has it revived my drooping spirits, when I have listened to its wild notes in the forest, after passing a restless night in my slender shed, so feebly secured against the violence of the storm, as to show me the futility of my best efforts to rekindle my little fire, whose uncertain and vacillating light had gradually died away under the destructive weight of the dense torrents of rain that seemed to involve the heavens and the earth in one mass of fearful murkiness,...\" He concluded, \"...how fervently...have I blessed the Being who formed the Wood Thrush, and placed it in those solitary forests...\"The most familiar of our spotted, woods-dwelling brown thrushes, and the only one that frequently makes his home near human habitations, surely the wood thrush has one of the clearest and sweetest songs ever to float from a woodland edge on a summer day. Thoreau wrote of it: \"Whenever a man hears it he is young, and Nature is in her spring;...\"EHJ\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrinceton Audubon prints are direct-camera facsimile lithographs of the Robert Havell Jr. (1793-1878) engravings for The Birds of America (1827-38). Princeton's Double elephant Folio prints are issued in limited editions of 500 or 1500 prints. All are numbered and have a seal in the bottom margin to demonstrate their authenticity. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrinted on heavy Mohawk paper that is recommended by the Library of Congress for archives, the paper is specially toned to match the average paper color of the antique originals.","brand":"AUDUBO","offers":[{"title":"12x18.5","offer_id":1209647476,"sku":"1714","price":500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0761\/3295\/products\/1714-Wood-Thrush.jpeg?v=1533127424"},{"product_id":"great-carolina-wren-princeton-print","title":"Great Carolina Wren Princeton Print","description":"Carolina Wren, Thryothorus ludovicianus \u003cbr\u003eFlora: scarlet buckeye, Aesculus pavia \u003cbr\u003ePrint size: 26 1\/4\" x 39 1\/4\"; image size: 12\" x 18 1\/2\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Princeton Audubon Limited Edition - produced 1985 \u003cbr\u003eBased on a composition painted in Louisiana or Mississippi in 1822. Audubon's young assistant, Joseph Mason, was the artist who painted the blossoming twig which Audubon identified as a \"Dwarf horse chestnut.\"\u003cbr\u003eThe Carolina wren seems so full of song-clear, strong, yet sweet. This song consists of loud, rapid triplets, described variously as a spirited three-part tea-kettle, tea-kettle, tea-kettle, or a two-part wheedle, wheedle repeated half a dozen times. Unlike most other wrens, it is nonmigratory. Common in the Southeastern United States, it tends to extend its northern ranges after mild winters. Then, when severe winters return and decimate the ranks, the range limit retracts.\u003cbr\u003eAudubon had his own interpretations of the wren's melodic phrases. In April 1840 when in Richmond, Virginia, he wrote; \"The spring is now fairly open, and this day although quite rainy and sad looking I have seen several Hum birds and heard the ever pleasing note of 'Sweet William' from the Carolina Wren...\" On another occasion he wrote of the bird: \"The little fellow droops its tail and sings with great energy a short ditty somewhat resembling the words come-to-me, come-to-me, repeated several times in quick succession, so loud, and yet so mellow, that it is always agreeable to listen to them.\"\u003cbr\u003eEHJ \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrinceton Audubon prints are direct-camera facsimile lithographs of the Robert Havell Jr. (1793-1878) engravings for The Birds of America (1827-38). Princeton's Double elephant Folio prints are issued in limited editions of 500 or 1500 prints. All are numbered and have a seal in the bottom margin to demonstrate their authenticity. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrinted on heavy Mohawk paper that is recommended by the Library of Congress for archives, the paper is specially toned to match the average paper color of the antique originals.","brand":"AUDUBO","offers":[{"title":"12x18.5","offer_id":1209647524,"sku":"1715","price":500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0761\/3295\/products\/1715-Great-Carolina-Wren.jpeg?v=1533124268"},{"product_id":"house-wren-princeton-print","title":"House Wren Princeton Print","description":"Troglodytes aedon\u003cbr\u003e Print size: 26 1\/4\" x 39 1\/4\"; image size: 11 1\/2\" x 18 1\/2\" \u003cbr\u003ePrinceton Audubon Limited Edition - produced 1985 \u003cbr\u003eAudubon made a pastel drawing of a male house wren when he and his wife were in Pennsylvania in 1812. Later, he made use of this work to produce the present composition showing the wren nest in a felt hat. His penciled outline of the tree limb was completed for the engraving by Robert Havell, Jr. \u003cbr\u003eAudubon wrote of his original painting: \"I knew of one [nest] in the pocket of an old broken-down carriage, and many in such an old hat as you see represented in the plate...I hope you will...look at the little creatures anxiously peeping out or hanging to the side of the hat, to meet their mother; which has just arrived with a spider, whilst the male is on the lookout, ready to interpose should any intruder come near.\"\u003cbr\u003eWrens are great scolders, and this species speaks with a deep, grating chatter. Its bulling and tempestuous song is a series of short notes poured out in a rapid burst that suddenly rises and then falls.\u003cbr\u003eEHJ \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrinceton Audubon prints are direct-camera facsimile lithographs of the Robert Havell Jr. (1793-1878) engravings for The Birds of America (1827-38). Princeton's Double elephant Folio prints are issued in limited editions of 500 or 1500 prints. All are numbered and have a seal in the bottom margin to demonstrate their authenticity. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrinted on heavy Mohawk paper that is recommended by the Library of Congress for archives, the paper is specially toned to match the average paper color of the antique originals.","brand":"AUDUBO","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":1209647832,"sku":"1716","price":500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0761\/3295\/products\/1716-House-Wren.jpeg?v=1533124649"},{"product_id":"columbia-jay-princeton-print","title":"Columbia Jay Princeton Print","description":"Magpie Jay, Calocitta formosa \u003cbr\u003eFlora: poison ivy, Rhus radicans \u003cbr\u003ePrint size: 26 1\/4\" x 39 1\/4\"; image size: 24 1\/2\" x 36\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Princeton Audubon Limited Edition - produced 1985 \u003cbr\u003eEach of the two jays was painted separately and in 1829 arranged in a composition depicting them perched on a dead limb entwined with poison ivy.\u003cbr\u003e\"The specimen from which the drawings were taken,\" Audubon wrote, \"was presented to me by a friend who had received it from the Columbia River, and is the only individual...which I did not receive on the spot.\"\u003cbr\u003eActually, the bird is a native of Mexico rather than the Columbia River area in Oregon, and in painting it, Audubon departed from an early resolve never to draw from a stuffed specimen. In so doing, he erred and included the magnificent magpie jay with his northwestern birds.\u003cbr\u003eEHJ \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrinceton Audubon prints are direct-camera facsimile lithographs of the Robert Havell Jr. (1793-1878) engravings for The Birds of America (1827-38). Princeton's Double elephant Folio prints are issued in limited editions of 500 or 1500 prints. All are numbered and have a seal in the bottom margin to demonstrate their authenticity. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrinted on heavy Mohawk paper that is recommended by the Library of Congress for archives, the paper is specially toned to match the average paper color of the antique originals.","brand":"AUDUBO","offers":[{"title":"24.5x36","offer_id":1209647888,"sku":"1717","price":650.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0761\/3295\/products\/1717-Columbia-Jay.jpeg?v=1533163256"},{"product_id":"pileated-woodpecker-princeton-print","title":"Pileated Woodpecker Princeton Print","description":"Dryocopus pileatus \u003cbr\u003eFlora: fox grapes or red grapes, Vitis labrusca, or V. palmata \u003cbr\u003ePrint size: 26 1\/4\" x 39 1\/4\"; image size: 24 1\/2\" x 37\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrinceton Audubon Limited Edition - produced 1985 \u003cbr\u003eNext to the rare ivory-billed, the pileated is the largest of all North American woodpeckers. This plate, a combination of pencil, ink, watercolor, and tempera, is based on a painting probably executed in 1829 at Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania, and considered to be one of Audubon's finest works.\u003cbr\u003eHe wrote, \"When followed [the pileated woodpecker] always alights on the tallest branches or trunks of trees, removes to the side farthest off, from which it every moment peeps, as it watches you progress in silence.\" Audubon also wrote: \"The observation of many years has convinced me, that Woodpeckers of all sorts have the bill longer when just fledged than at any future period of their life, and that through use it becomes not only shorter, but also much harder, stronger, and sharper.\"\u003cbr\u003eEHJ\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrinceton Audubon prints are direct-camera facsimile lithographs of the Robert Havell Jr. (1793-1878) engravings for The Birds of America (1827-38). Princeton's Double elephant Folio prints are issued in limited editions of 500 or 1500 prints. All are numbered and have a seal in the bottom margin to demonstrate their authenticity. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrinted on heavy Mohawk paper that is recommended by the Library of Congress for archives, the paper is specially toned to match the average paper color of the antique originals.","brand":"AUDUBO","offers":[{"title":"24.5x37","offer_id":1209647908,"sku":"1718","price":1200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0761\/3295\/products\/1718-Pileated-Woodpecker.jpeg?v=1533125806"},{"product_id":"snowy-owl-princeton-print","title":"Snowy Owl Princeton Print","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePlate: 121 Snowy Owl\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOriginally painted by John James Audubon on the east coast in 1829, it is one of the few nocturnal scenes found in the \"Birds of America\".\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrint size: 26 1\/4\" x 39 1\/4\"; image size: 25 1\/2 x 20\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Princeton Audubon Limited Edition - produced 1985\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrinceton Audubon prints are direct-camera facsimile lithographs of the Robert Havell Jr. (1793-1878) engravings for The Birds of America (1827-38). Princeton's Double elephant Folio prints are issued in limited editions of 500 or 1500 prints. All are numbered and have a seal in the bottom margin to demonstrate their authenticity. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrinted on heavy Mohawk paper that is recommended by the Library of Congress for archives, the paper is specially toned to match the average paper color of the antique originals.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"AUDUBO","offers":[{"title":"26 x 39","offer_id":1209647936,"sku":"1719","price":1200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0761\/3295\/products\/1719-Snowy-Owl.jpeg?v=1533126333"},{"product_id":"black-yellow-warbler-princeton-print","title":"Black \u0026 Yellow Warbler Princeton Print","description":"Magnolia Warbler, Dendroica magnolia \u003cbr\u003eFlora: purple-flowering raspberry, Rubus odoratus\u003cbr\u003e Print size: 26 1\/4\" x 39 1\/4\"; image size: 11 1\/2\" x 18 1\/2\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Princeton Audubon Limited Edition - produced 1985 \u003cbr\u003eAccording to Roger Tory Peterson, \"Audubon drew this immature magnolia warbler in Louisiana on October 20, 1821, when it was in its autumnal migration.\" The original for the plate was a painting made in 1829 and inscribed \"Great Pine Swamp, Aug-12th.\" \"Black and Yellow Warbler,\" the name formerly applied to the magnolia warbler, was most descriptive of its color, but had the disadvantage of being equally descriptive of several other warblers. Thus the change to magnolia warbler. In its movements it has a trick of partly spreading its tail, thereby showing the characteristic white band crossing midway.\u003cbr\u003eEHJ \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrinceton Audubon prints are direct-camera facsimile lithographs of the Robert Havell Jr. (1793-1878) engravings for The Birds of America (1827-38). Princeton's Double elephant Folio prints are issued in limited editions of 500 or 1500 prints. All are numbered and have a seal in the bottom margin to demonstrate their authenticity. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrinted on heavy Mohawk paper that is recommended by the Library of Congress for archives, the paper is specially toned to match the average paper color of the antique originals.","brand":"AUDUBO","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":1209647956,"sku":"1720","price":500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0761\/3295\/products\/1720-Black-Yellow-Warbler.jpeg?v=1533162549"},{"product_id":"yellowbreasted-chat-princeton-print","title":"Yellow-Breasted Chat Princeton Print","description":"Icteria virens \u003cbr\u003eFlora: possibly Rosa virginiana \u003cbr\u003ePrint size: 26 1\/4\" x 39 1\/4\"; image size: 20\" x 24\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrinceton Audubon Limited Edition - produced 1985 \u003cbr\u003ePainted in New Jersey, June 7. 1829.\u003cbr\u003e\"I have presented you with several figures of this singular species,\" Audubon wrote of the painting from which this plate was engraved, \"to shew you their positions when on the wing performing their antics in the love season as well as when alighted.\" This \"performing,\" as he noted, involved \"the strangest and most whimsical gesticulations.\"\u003cbr\u003eThe chat is the largest member of the New World family of wood warblers and prefers to live in tangled thickets and hedgerows along streams. It has been described by George Dock, Jr. as \"one of the most talented clowns of the feathered kingdom, both with its voice and its droll antics in the air. Rising from his perch in some thick bush or briar patch, the male flops about in an awkward fashion, with its legs dangling, and performs parachute-like descents on uptilted wings while jerking his tail.\"\u003cbr\u003eEHJ \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrinceton Audubon prints are direct-camera facsimile lithographs of the Robert Havell Jr. (1793-1878) engravings for The Birds of America (1827-38). Princeton's Double elephant Folio prints are issued in limited editions of 500 or 1500 prints. All are numbered and have a seal in the bottom margin to demonstrate their authenticity. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrinted on heavy Mohawk paper that is recommended by the Library of Congress for archives, the paper is specially toned to match the average paper color of the antique originals.","brand":"AUDUBO","offers":[{"title":"20 x 24","offer_id":1209647964,"sku":"1721","price":500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0761\/3295\/products\/1721-Yellow-Breasted-Chat.jpeg?v=1533127602"},{"product_id":"field-sparrow-princeton-print","title":"Field Sparrow Princeton Print","description":"Spizella pusilla \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFlora: grass-pink, Calopogon tuberosus, and a blueberry, probably Vaccinium vacillans \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrint size: 26 1\/4\" x 39 1\/4\"; image size: 11 1\/2\" x 18 1\/2\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrinceton Audubon Limited Edition - produced 1985\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis print was based on a painting dated July 11, 1829, the day on which the artist left Great Egg Harbor, New Jersey, after a visit of four weeks. Audubon wrote of it: \"Travelling from Egg Harbor towards Philadelphia, I found a nest of this species placed at the foot of a bush growing in almost pure sand. Near it were the plants which you see accompanying the figure.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA pink bill and plain breast are characteristic field marks of this bird, and the term \"field\" is a bit misleading as it is rarely seen in cultivated fields, but rather in woodland borders or old pasture lots growing up with weeds and bushes. It is a persistent singer and from a singing perch, usually atop a bush or small tree, it sends forth its clear, sweet, and melancholy notes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEHJ\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrinceton Audubon prints are direct-camera facsimile lithographs of the Robert Havell Jr. (1793-1878) engravings for The Birds of America (1827-38). Princeton's Double elephant Folio prints are issued in limited editions of 500 or 1500 prints. All are numbered and have a seal in the bottom margin to demonstrate their authenticity. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrinted on heavy Mohawk paper that is recommended by the Library of Congress for archives, the paper is specially toned to match the average paper color of the antique originals.","brand":"AUDUBO","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":1209647992,"sku":"1722","price":500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0761\/3295\/products\/1722-Field-Sparrow.jpeg?v=1533124082"},{"product_id":"whitecrowned-pigeon-princeton-print","title":"White-Crowned Pigeon Princeton Print","description":"Columba leucocephala \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFlora: geiger tree, Cordia sebestena, a West Indian shrub found also in the Florida keys \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrint size: 26 1\/4\" x 39 1\/4\"; image size: 19\" x 23 1\/2\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Princeton Audubon Limited Edition - produced 1985 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBased on a composition painted at Indian Key, Florida in April 1832. The landscape artist, George Lehman, painted the flowering limb of the geiger tree.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I saw them as they approached the shore,\" Audubon wrote, \"skimming along the surface of the waters, flying with great rapidity, much in the manner of the common house species, but not near each other like the Passenger Pigeon. On nearing the land, they rose to the height of about a hundred yards, surveyed the country in large circles, then with less velocity gradually descended, and alighted in the thickest parts of the mangroves and other low trees.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAppearing quite dark except for the shining white crown, most of these pigeons winter on Caribbean islands from whence they make an annual crossing to the Florida Keys to nest in colonies in coastal mangroves.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEHJ\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrinceton Audubon prints are direct-camera facsimile lithographs of the Robert Havell Jr. (1793-1878) engravings for The Birds of America (1827-38). Princeton's Double elephant Folio prints are issued in limited editions of 500 or 1500 prints. All are numbered and have a seal in the bottom margin to demonstrate their authenticity. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrinted on heavy Mohawk paper that is recommended by the Library of Congress for archives, the paper is specially toned to match the average paper color of the antique originals.","brand":"AUDUBO","offers":[{"title":"19x23.5","offer_id":1209648008,"sku":"1723","price":800.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0761\/3295\/products\/1723-White-Crowned-Pigeon.jpeg?v=1533127265"},{"product_id":"pinnated-grous-princeton-print","title":"Pinnated Grous Princeton Print","description":"Prarie Chicken, Tympanuchus cupido \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFlora: tiger lily, Lilium michiganense \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrint size: 26 1\/4\" x 39 1\/4\"; image size: 34 1\/2\" x 24 1\/2\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Princeton Audubon Limited Edition - produced 1985 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis painting was probably done in 1824, when Audubon was near the Great Lakes. It depicts two males fighting over a female and is one of the few works in which Audubon drew all three of the compositional elements: birds, plants, and landscape. Of the tiger lily Audubon wrote: \"This beautiful plant,...grows in swamps and moist copses, in the Northern and Eastern States, as far as Virginia, as well as in the western prairies,...I was forced to reduce the stem, in order to introduce it into my drawing, the back ground of which is an attempt to represent our original western meadows.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe greater prairie chicken, found in such abundance by the artist when he lived in Kentucky, is now uncommon and seriously declining over much of its range. During the mating season the males in a given area gather in the early morning on courtship grounds, there to display before the females. As described by Dr. Frank M. Chapman: \"The feather-tufts on either part of the neck are erected like horns, the tail raised and spread, the wings drooped, when the bird first rushes forward a few steps, pauses, inflates its orange-like air-sacs, and with a violent, jerking, muscular effort, produces the startling boom, which we may have heard when two miles distant.\" The booming note is much like one made by blowing across an empty bottle.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEHJ \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrinceton Audubon prints are direct-camera facsimile lithographs of the Robert Havell Jr. (1793-1878) engravings for The Birds of America (1827-38). Princeton's Double elephant Folio prints are issued in limited editions of 500 or 1500 prints. All are numbered and have a seal in the bottom margin to demonstrate their authenticity. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrinted on heavy Mohawk paper that is recommended by the Library of Congress for archives, the paper is specially toned to match the average paper color of the antique originals.","brand":"AUDUBO","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":1209648088,"sku":"1724","price":800.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0761\/3295\/products\/1724-Pinnated-Grous.jpeg?v=1533125827"},{"product_id":"summer-or-wood-duck-princeton-print","title":"Summer or Wood Duck Princeton Print","description":"Wood Duck, Aix sponsa \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFlora: sycamore, Platanus occidentalis, and resurrection-fern, Polypodium polypodioides\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Print size: 26 1\/4\" x 39 1\/4\"; image size: 24 1\/2\" x 37\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrinceton Audubon Limited Edition - produced 1985 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis print is based on a composition painted in Louisiana in 1821. The female in the nest was added around 1825.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlthough the Wood Ducks always form their nests in the hollow of a tree,\" wrote Audubon, \"their caresses are performed exclusively on the water, to which they resort for the purpose, even when their loves have been first proved far above the ground on a branch of some tall sycamore. While the female is depositing her eggs, the male is seen to fly swiftly past the hole in which she is hidden, erecting his crest, and sending forth his love notes, to which she never fails to respond.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne of the loveliest of all the waterfowl, the extravagantly plumaged wood duck nests in hollow trees and nesting boxes, often some distance from the ground. Soon after hatching and in response to the low soft calls from the mother on the ground below, the downy young clamber on their sharp, hooked claws to the entrance of the nest and flutter lightly to the ground.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEHJ \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrinceton Audubon prints are direct-camera facsimile lithographs of the Robert Havell Jr. (1793-1878) engravings for The Birds of America (1827-38). Princeton's Double elephant Folio prints are issued in limited editions of 500 or 1500 prints. All are numbered and have a seal in the bottom margin to demonstrate their authenticity. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrinted on heavy Mohawk paper that is recommended by the Library of Congress for archives, the paper is specially toned to match the average paper color of the antique originals.","brand":"AUDUBO","offers":[{"title":"24.5x37","offer_id":1209648112,"sku":"1725","price":800.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0761\/3295\/products\/1725-Summer-or-Wood-Duck.jpeg?v=1533126405"},{"product_id":"hooded-merganser-princeton-print","title":"Hooded Merganser Princeton Print","description":"Lophodytes cucullatus\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Print size: 26 1\/4\" x 39 1\/4\"; image size: 24 1\/2\" x 19 1\/2\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrinceton Audubon Limited Edition - produced 1985\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Based on a composition painted in New Orleans in 1821. Of the male, at left, Audubon wrote: \"Its broad and rounded crest of pure white, with an edging of jetty black, and which it closes or spreads out at pleasure, renders the male of this species conspicuous on the waters to which it resorts. The activity of its motions, the rapidity of its flight, and its other habits, contribute to render it a pleasing object to the student of nature...\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEdward Howe Forbush considered the hooded merganser the most beautiful of its family. He wrote: \"Vivacious, active, elegant in form, graceful in carriage, its presence adds a peculiar charm to the little ponds and streams on which it delights to disport...One who has seen a small flock of this species placing on the dark waters of a tiny shaded pool with two or three beautiful males darting about among the others, opening and closing their fan-like crests and throwing the sparkling drops in showers over their glistening plumage, will rarely find anywhere a finer and more animated picture of bird life.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEHJ \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrinceton Audubon prints are direct-camera facsimile lithographs of the Robert Havell Jr. (1793-1878) engravings for The Birds of America (1827-38). Princeton's Double elephant Folio prints are issued in limited editions of 500 or 1500 prints. All are numbered and have a seal in the bottom margin to demonstrate their authenticity. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrinted on heavy Mohawk paper that is recommended by the Library of Congress for archives, the paper is specially toned to match the average paper color of the antique originals.","brand":"AUDUBO","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":1209648160,"sku":"1726","price":500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0761\/3295\/products\/1726-Hooded-Merganser.jpeg?v=1533124638"},{"product_id":"snowy-heron-egret-princeton-print","title":"Snowy Heron \/ Egret Princeton Print","description":"Snowy Egret, Egretta thula \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrint size: 26 1\/4\" x 39 1\/4\"; image size: 19 1\/2\" x 24 1\/2\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Princeton Audubon Limited Edition - produced 1985 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the early spring of 1832, Audubon and his assistant George Lehman stayed at the home of John Bachman in Charleston, South Carolina. Audubon wrote of the thousands of snowy egrets that had arrived there by March 25 and \"were seen in the marshes and rice fields, all in full plumage.\" Soon he painted this magnificent egret, while Lehman added the landscape of a rice plantation in the Carolina low country.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKnown to the plume hunters as the \"Little snowy,\" the bird was adorned in breeding season with delicate plumes. Its lovely recurved back plumes were the milliners' \"cross aigrettes,\" and it was for these nuptial feathers that the heronries were destroyed. \"Where there had been hundreds of egrets in our southern states,\" Roger Tory Peterson writes, \"there soon remained but a few hundred. The National Audubon society fought for plumage laws, and to meet the emergency hired wardens...Under protection the egrets and all the other long-legged waders have made a spectacular comeback.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEHJ\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrinceton Audubon prints are direct-camera facsimile lithographs of the Robert Havell Jr. (1793-1878) engravings for The Birds of America (1827-38). Princeton's Double elephant Folio prints are issued in limited editions of 500 or 1500 prints. All are numbered and have a seal in the bottom margin to demonstrate their authenticity. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrinted on heavy Mohawk paper that is recommended by the Library of Congress for archives, the paper is specially toned to match the average paper color of the antique originals.","brand":"AUDUBO","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":1209648192,"sku":"1727","price":800.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0761\/3295\/products\/1727-Snowy-Heron-Egret.jpeg?v=1533126324"},{"product_id":"brown-pelican-princeton-print","title":"Brown Pelican Princeton Print","description":"Pelecanus occidentalis \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFlora: Mangrove, Rhizophora mangle \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrint size: 26 1\/4\" x 39 1\/4\"; image size: 24 1\/2\" x 36 1\/2\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrinceton Audubon Limited Edition - produced 1985 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAudubon probably drew this adult pelican in the Florida Keys in April or May 1832. Landscape artist, George Lehman, painted the mangrove limb.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe brown pelican is a ponderous bird, but with its six-and-one-half-food wingspread has a powerful flight which it alternates with short glides. The bird carries a large pouch under its lower bill and has an appetite for fish as large as the pouch. American children learn of the brown pelican through a well known bit of doggerel that begins: \"What a wonderful bird is the pelican-Its beak can hold more than its belly can,...\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA long line of these birds flapping and sailing, often in unison, is a familiar coastal sight. When fishing, the birds fly aloft, spot the schools of fish, then head downwind, pull back their wings, and plunge beak-first with a grand splash.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAudubon wrote: \"The brown pelicans are as well aware of the time of each return of the tide, as the most watchful pilots. Though but a short time before they have been sound asleep, yet without bell or other warning, they suddenly open their eyelids, and all leave their roosts, the instant when the waters...resume their motion.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEHJ \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrinceton Audubon prints are direct-camera facsimile lithographs of the Robert Havell Jr. (1793-1878) engravings for The Birds of America (1827-38). Princeton's Double elephant Folio prints are issued in limited editions of 500 or 1500 prints. All are numbered and have a seal in the bottom margin to demonstrate their authenticity. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrinted on heavy Mohawk paper that is recommended by the Library of Congress for archives, the paper is specially toned to match the average paper color of the antique originals.","brand":"AUDUBO","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":1209648208,"sku":"1729","price":1200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0761\/3295\/products\/1729-Brown-Pelican.jpeg?v=1533162803"},{"product_id":"purple-heron-princeton-print","title":"Purple Heron Princeton Print","description":"Reddish Egret, Dichromanassa rufescens \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrint size: 26 1\/4\" x 39 1\/4\"; image size: 34 1\/2\" x 24 1\/2\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrinceton Audubon Limited Edition - produced 1985 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAudubon drew both the birds and the background in Florida in April 1832. When he first saw them in the Keys, he puzzled at their coloration: \"Some of them were as white as driven snow, the rest of a delicate purplish tint, inclining to grey on the back and wings, with heads and necks of a curious reddish colour. Males and females there were, but they were all of one species...\" He concluded that those with white plumage were immature birds. He was incorrect, since in this species, coloring depends on the individual and has no relation to either age or sex. It is dimorphic and displays two color phases, one white, the other purplish blue. The birds illustrated here are both adults.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe reddish egret inhabits shallow, open salt pans. When wading, it often rakes the bottom with one foot to stir up the prey and when pursuing fish, it has a habit of spreading its wings in a canopy, then running, hopping and cavorting in a curious dance.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEHJ\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrinceton Audubon prints are direct-camera facsimile lithographs of the Robert Havell Jr. (1793-1878) engravings for The Birds of America (1827-38). Princeton's Double elephant Folio prints are issued in limited editions of 500 or 1500 prints. All are numbered and have a seal in the bottom margin to demonstrate their authenticity. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrinted on heavy Mohawk paper that is recommended by the Library of Congress for archives, the paper is specially toned to match the average paper color of the antique originals.","brand":"AUDUBO","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":1209648264,"sku":"1730","price":1200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0761\/3295\/products\/1730-Purple-Heron.jpeg?v=1533167259"},{"product_id":"blue-crane-princeton-print","title":"Blue Crane Princeton Print","description":"Little Blue Heron, Florida caerulea \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrint size 26 1\/4\" x 39 1\/4\"; image size: 28 1\/2\" x 20 1\/2\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrinceton Audubon Limited Edition - produced 1985 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe white bird in the background is an immature little blue heron, quite as white as an egret and often mistaken for one since it does not wear its adult plumage until two years of age. The view of the countryside near Charleston, South Carolina, was painted by George Lehman.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAudubon wrote of the little blue heron: \"You may see this graceful Heron, quietly and in silence walking along the margins of the water, with an elegance and grace which can never fail to please you. Each regularly-timed step is lightly measured, while the keen eye of the bird seeks for and watches the equally cautious movements of the objects towards which it advances with all imaginable care. When at a proper distance, it darts forth its bill with astonishing celerity, to pierce and secure its prey.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEHJ \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrinceton Audubon prints are direct-camera facsimile lithographs of the Robert Havell Jr. (1793-1878) engravings for The Birds of America (1827-38). Princeton's Double elephant Folio prints are issued in limited editions of 500 or 1500 prints. All are numbered and have a seal in the bottom margin to demonstrate their authenticity. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrinted on heavy Mohawk paper that is recommended by the Library of Congress for archives, the paper is specially toned to match the average paper color of the antique originals.","brand":"AUDUBO","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":1209648284,"sku":"1731","price":800.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0761\/3295\/products\/1731-Blue-Crane.jpeg?v=1533162618"},{"product_id":"american-white-pelican-princeton-print","title":"American White Pelican Princeton Print","description":"White Pelican, Pelecanus erythrorhynchos \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBased on a composition painted perhaps in Florida in 1831 or 1832. Landscape artist, George Lehman, worked on the background.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe white pelican, with a wingspread of nine feet, does not plunge for food like the brown pelican, but fishes as it swims along, using the large bag that hangs from he lower part of its bill as a dip-net. It often gathers in groups for cooperative fishing. It nests for the most part far inland in the western half of the continent.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAudubon wrote: \"Ranged along the margins of the sand-bar, in broken array, stand a hundred heavy-bodied Pelicans...Pluming themselves, the gorged Pelicans patiently wait the return of hunger. Should one chance to gape, all, as if by sympathy, in succession open their long and broad mandibles, yawning lazily and ludicrously...But mark, the red beams of the setting sun tinge the tall tops of the forest trees; the birds experience the cravings of hunger...they rise on their columnar legs, and heavily waddle to the water...And now the Pelicans...drive the little fishes toward the shallow shore, and then, with their enormous pouches spread like so many bag-nets, scoop them out and devour them in thousands.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEHJ \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrint size: 26 1\/4\" x 39 1\/4\"; image size: 25 1\/2 x 20\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Princeton Audubon Limited Edition - produced 1985\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrinceton Audubon prints are direct-camera facsimile lithographs of the Robert Havell Jr. (1793-1878) engravings for The Birds of America (1827-38). Princeton's Double elephant Folio prints are issued in limited editions of 500 or 1500 prints. All are numbered and have a seal in the bottom margin to demonstrate their authenticity. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrinted on heavy Mohawk paper that is recommended by the Library of Congress for archives, the paper is specially toned to match the average paper color of the antique originals.","brand":"AUDUBO","offers":[{"title":"24 x 37","offer_id":1209648340,"sku":"1732","price":1200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0761\/3295\/products\/1732-American-White-Pelican.jpeg?v=1533121892"},{"product_id":"black-or-surf-duck-princeton-print","title":"Black or Surf Duck Princeton Print","description":"Surf Scoter, Melanitta perspicillata \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrint size: 26 1\/4\" x 39 1\/4\"; image size: 28\" x 20 1\/2\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrinceton Audubon Limited Edition - produced 1985 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAudubon painted this pair of surf scoters (a male at left, a female at right) during his voyage to Labrador in 1833. He wrote: \"For more than a week after we had anchored in the lovely harbor of Little Macatina, I had been anxiously searching for the nest of this species but in vain: the millions that sped along the shores had no regard for my wishes.\" Fortunately, he found a nest and wrote that it was hidden among tall grasses, raised about four inches above the ground, and lined with down.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe summer home of the bird is in the boreal forests of Canada and Alaska. During its sojourn in the States it winters in coastal waters, at home in the ocean surf. The male has overall black plumage set off by an orange, black, and white bill, a white eye, and a white patch on the forehead and nape. This remarkable coloration has given rise to some equally remarkable names: speckle-billed coot, blossom-billed coot, patch-head, skunk head, skunk top, goggle-nose, and snuff-taker.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEHJ \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrinceton Audubon prints are direct-camera facsimile lithographs of the Robert Havell Jr. (1793-1878) engravings for The Birds of America (1827-38). Princeton's Double elephant Folio prints are issued in limited editions of 500 or 1500 prints. All are numbered and have a seal in the bottom margin to demonstrate their authenticity. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrinted on heavy Mohawk paper that is recommended by the Library of Congress for archives, the paper is specially toned to match the average paper color of the antique originals.","brand":"AUDUBO","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":1209648372,"sku":"1733","price":500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0761\/3295\/products\/1733-Black-or-Surf-Duck.jpeg?v=1533162572"},{"product_id":"longlegged-avocet-princeton-print","title":"Long-Legged Avocet Princeton Print","description":"Black-necked Stilt, Himantopus mexicanus \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrint size: 26 1\/4\" x 39 1\/4\"; image size: 18 1\/2\" x 14\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Princeton Audubon Limited Edition - produced 1985 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAudubon painted this bird in New Orleans on May 2, 1821. That day he wrote in his journal, \"drew a Long Legged Plover...it was a Male I received it from Mr. [Ambrose] Duval the Miniature Painter who assured Me that he had Killed 6 or 7..., all alike no difference whatever in the size or Coloring...Was pleased with the Position in my drawing ...\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eElliott Coues penned a graphic description of the movements of the long-legged wader. \"On the ground, whether walking or wading, the bird moves gracefully, with measured steps; the long legs are much bent at every step (only at the joint, however) and planted firmly, perfectly straight;...When feeding, the legs are bent backward with an acute angle at the heel joint to bring the body lower; the latter is tilted forward and downward over the center of equilibrium, where the feet rest, and the long neck and bill reach the rest of the distance to the ground.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEHJ \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrinceton Audubon prints are direct-camera facsimile lithographs of the Robert Havell Jr. (1793-1878) engravings for The Birds of America (1827-38). Princeton's Double elephant Folio prints are issued in limited editions of 500 or 1500 prints. All are numbered and have a seal in the bottom margin to demonstrate their authenticity. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrinted on heavy Mohawk paper that is recommended by the Library of Congress for archives, the paper is specially toned to match the average paper color of the antique originals.","brand":"AUDUBO","offers":[{"title":"18.5x14","offer_id":1209648384,"sku":"1734","price":500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0761\/3295\/products\/1734-Long-Legged-Avocet.jpeg?v=1533125048"},{"product_id":"bandtailed-pigeon-princeton-print","title":"Band-Tailed Pigeon Princeton Print","description":"Columba fasciata \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFlora: Cornus nuttalli \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrint size: 26 1\/4\" x 39 1\/4\"; image size: 28\" x 20 1\/2\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrinceton Audubon Limited Edition - produced 1985\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This print is based on a composition probably painted in the winter of 1836-37 in Charleston, S.C. Maria Martin drew the dogwood branch, a drawing most interesting to botanists since the accompanying text in the Ornithological biography contains the first recorded description of the western, or mountain, dogwood, Cornus nuttalli, which has six involuted bracts instead of the four of the well-known eastern species.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAudubon wrote: \"In my plate are represented two adult birds, placed on the branch of a superb species of dogwood, discovered by my learned friend, Thomas Nuttall, Esq., when on his march toward the shores of the Pacific Ocean, and which I have graced with his name.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese pigeons lay only one egg to the nest, and breed usually only once a year, the lowest reproductive rate of any North American game bird except the extinct passenger pigeon. The enactment in 1913 of the Federal law for the protection of the migratory birds saved this species.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEHJ \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrinceton Audubon prints are direct-camera facsimile lithographs of the Robert Havell Jr. (1793-1878) engravings for The Birds of America (1827-38). Princeton's Double elephant Folio prints are issued in limited editions of 500 or 1500 prints. All are numbered and have a seal in the bottom margin to demonstrate their authenticity. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrinted on heavy Mohawk paper that is recommended by the Library of Congress for archives, the paper is specially toned to match the average paper color of the antique originals.","brand":"AUDUBO","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":1209648404,"sku":"1735","price":500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0761\/3295\/products\/1735-Band-Tailed-Pigeon.jpeg?v=1533162006"},{"product_id":"columbian-hummingbird-princeton-print","title":"Columbian Hummingbird Princeton Print","description":"Anna's Hummingbird, Calypte anna \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFlora: hibiscus, drawn by Maria Martin \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrint size: 26 1\/4\" x 39 1\/4\"; image size: 12\" x 19\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrinceton Audubon Limited Edition - produced 1985 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBased on a composition probably painted in London in 1838.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAudubon received the female and nest from Thomas Nuttall, who collected them in the Rocky Mountains. The four males at the top of the print were drawn from specimens Audubon found in an English collection.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnna's hummingbird is slightly larger than other West Coast hummingbirds and is the only hummer to remain constantly throughout this area in winter. The others cross the border into Mexico. In the early spring the male often makes quite an effort at singing, though this sounds to some like a high-pitched squeak rather than a song. There is no mistaking the peculiar popping noise he makes at the bottom of his pendulum courtship flight.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEHJ \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrinceton Audubon prints are direct-camera facsimile lithographs of the Robert Havell Jr. (1793-1878) engravings for The Birds of America (1827-38). Princeton's Double elephant Folio prints are issued in limited editions of 500 or 1500 prints. 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