Audubon the Naturalist: A History of His Life and Time. Vol. 2 (of 2)
CHAPTER XXIX
SIDELIGHTS ON AUDUBON AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES
What was a Quinarian?—Controversy over the authorship of the _Ornithological Biography_—Audubon's quaint proposal—Swainson's reply—Friendship suffers a check—Species-mongers—Hitting at one over the shoulders of another—Swainson as a biographer—His career—Bonaparte's grievance—A fortune in ornithology—Labors of John Gould and his relations with Audubon—The freemasonry of naturalists 93