46 [ VoL. VII A 1VIanuscript of Charles Lucian Bonaparte ?x. w. oTTO u?uuso? HEN the Cooper homestead was vacated last summer I was permitted to look over a rubbish heap of catalogues, pamphlets, ?nd odds and ends, such as are usually consigned to the fire on an occasion of this sort. Among a great variety of relics of past literary activity I came across a bundle of man- uscript written by Prince Charles Lucian Bonaparte. Examinatiou proved this to CHARLES LUCIAN BONAPARTE FROM A LI.rHOGRAPH LOANED BY MR. Ru'rHVEN DEANE be the first draft of the well-known "American Ornithology."a Volume I, which was published in x8?5, was not in the bundle, volumes II to IV being represented. The fac-simile page here reproduced is natural size. Any doubts as to the authen- ticity of the manuscript were set at rest by a comparison of the writing with sev- eral signatures of Bonaparte, and also by a slip of paper, bearing in the hand- a. This "American Ornithology" is sometimes united with Wilson's. It is a district work, however, entitletL "American I Ornithology I or, [ The Natural History I of I Birds inhabitlug the United States I not given by Wilson. I With figures drawn, engraved and colored from Nature. I By Charles L[ucian] Bonaparte l [in MS--Prince of Musiguano I A.M. F. M. L. S.--aii titles dropped in third volume]. Vol. I [-IV] ? Philadelphia [ etc. I ?8z5[--?833.] The title page of voimne II of the MS. has "Lucian" spelled out, and a list of ten titles of membership in American and YSuropean Societies follows the name.
