tlie great terror of his formative years, a feeling that seems to show up in his later works ("the stricken great black-backed g~111,the fierce hawks and their victims, the two golden-eye in the act of I>eing shot . . . ").
In 1803, Auduhon left France for America, to enter business and mar^^^. But he failed repeatedly as an entrepreneur. the time lie was 35 years old, he decided to abandon business altogether and just paint birds. Within six years he had completed enough good drawings...