Note 183 — Chapter XXXIII · NEW ENTERPRISES AND LIFE AT "MINNIE'S LAND"
Reading edition
Baird wrote to Audubon, November 4, 1846: "Please tell me the address of your friend Ayres. I have been collecting fishes for some weeks, and wish to correspond & exchange with him on this subject." A woodpecker, Colaptes ayresii, was named after this friend by Audubon, in The Birds of America, vol. vii, in 1843.