Note 305 — Chapter XXI · DÉBUT AS A NATURALIST

He seems, however, to have supplied Bonaparte liberally with notes, for after devoting fifteen pages to the biography of the Wild Turkey, Audubon said: "A long account of this remarkable bird has already been given in Bonaparte's American Ornithology, volume I. As that account was in a great measure derived from notes furnished by myself, you need not be surprised, good reader, to find it often in accordance with the above." Ornithological Biography (Bibl. No. 2), vol. i, p. 16.