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JOHN JAMES, an American naturalist of French extraction, born near New Orleans, May 4, AUGEREAU 1780; was educated in France, and studied painting under David. In 1798 he settled in Pennsylvania, but, having a great love for ornithology, he set out in 1810 with his wife and child, descended the Ohio, and for many years roamed the forests in every direction, drawing the birds which he shot. In 1826 he went to England, exhibited his drawings in Liverpool, Manchester, and Edinburgh, and finally published them in an unrivalled work of double-folio size, with 435 colored plates of birds, the size of life ("The Birds of America," 4 vols., 1827-1839), with an accompanying text ("Ornithological Biography"). On his final return to the United States he labored with Dr.
Bachman on an illustrated work entitled "The Quadrupeds of America" (1843- 1850, 3 vols.). He died in New York City, June 27, 1851.