(London): John J. Audubon, (1834). Variant 2. Hand-colored engraving with aquatint and etching, on J. Whatman watermarked paper, dated 1834. Engraved, printed, and colored by R(obert). Havell, after a painting by Audubon. Light mat burn; scattered small spotting. 38 x 25 in. (965 x 635 mm). In mat and in frame, 40 x 34 1/2 in. (1016 x 876 mm). Low, p. 65

Audubon's Passenger Pigeon, plate LXII from his Birds of America (London, 1827-38). "Painting and plate are alike, with the female, above, sitting on a thin lichen-covered branch with a few dead leaves attached. The male is below on a thicker branch. They are leaning toward each other with their beaks entwined and they form a lovely S-shaped curve." Likely painted by Audubon in Pittsburgh, in 1824. Now extinct, "the last specimen of this bird taken in the wild is believed to be one shot at Sargento, Pike County, Ohio, on March 24, 1900. The last living individual died in captivity in the Cincinnati Zoological Gardens in Ohio on September 1, 1914. In Audubon's time, this bird was so plentiful that he wrote about flocks passing a point for days, so thick that they darkened the sky. It is hard to believe that a bird once so abundant could become extinct in only seventy-five years." (Low)