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AUDUBON, John James (1785 - 1851). Yellow-Billed Cuckoo, Plate 2. Aquatint engraving with original hand color. From The Birds of America. London: Robert Havell, 1827-1838. 25 1/2" x 35 5/8" sheet. Comparables: Christie's, 2004 - $11,950; Arader Galleries, 2018 - $9,375. "The flight of the bird now before you is rapid, silent, and horizontal, as it moves from one tree to another, or across a field or river, and is generally continued amongst the branches of the trees in our woods. When making its way among the branches, it occasionally inclines the body to either side, so as alternately to shew its whole upper or under parts. During its southward migration, it flies high in the air, and in such loose flocks that the birds might seem to follow each other, instead of their keeping company together." - (Audubon's Ornithological Biography, 1831).