Field notes: Eastern United States trip, book 1, v4545
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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