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Apr. 27- La.
Audubon Park, New Orleans, 1:30 p.m.
A statue of Audubon, "ornithologist and
naturalist" occupies a prominent place
in this very extensive and pleasant
standing city park. Audubon is posed, looking
slightly upwards into a tree, with sketch-
book held in left hand at arm, and
crencil poised in right. But he has
a hunting knife in his belt, and
also a powder horn and shot pouch,
two new guns! The Park is posted
by the Louisiana Conservation Commission
against collecting Birds, with extracts
from the very drastic laws-which
give no opportunity for collecting!
The trees are now in richest green,
mostly big Oaks (labeled "Quercus virgana"),
magnolias, oleanders, palms, and
lots of plants I don't know.
English Sparrows swarm, many
carrying nesting material into