The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Birds of America, The

BIRDS OF AMERICA, The, the monumental work of John James Audubon, the great American naturalist, first published in England between the years 1827 and 1830. It contained colored illustrations of 1,065 species of birds. The text is descriptive of the habits and manners of the birds observed by Audubon himself in his long wanderings over the North American continent.