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The Why of Ferrets

10,000 Birds

Somewhere around the Platte River one of the Audubon boys received a black-footed hide from a fur trader. Audubon painted this new creature and wrote up a brief description, which went into his posthumous book and so out into the world. John Bachmann headed west to gather material for Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America.

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