Audubon's ancestry

Regarding the article ``Audubon's Magnificent Birds Migrate North to Boston,'' Feb. 15:

Especially since it is Black History Month, I am disappointed that the article did not mention that John James Audubon was from Santo Domingo [now Haiti] and his mother was [a Creole] of African descent. Joseph S. Vera, Cambridge, Mass.

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