IV PREFACE. 
The memoir thus projected by Pennant and completed 
and published by Forster is of much interest, as being one 
of the earliest authorities on North American Zoology. It 
is quoted by Forster himself in his paper on the Birds 
of Hudson’s Bay as his “ Faunula Americana.” This name 
is, therefore, given as its second title. 
The “Mr B.” of the catalogue who, as mentioned in 
Forster’s Preface, formed a collection “in his voyage to 
Newfoundland” is believed by Prof. Newton to be the 
Mr Bolton, of Halifax, mentioned by Latham and Lewin, 
and the Lancashire lady who possessed a “most select 
and numerous Collection of American Animals” (Mus. 
Bl.) to be Mrs Anna Blackburn, of Orford, near Warrington, 
as referred to in Pennant’s Arctic Zoology, Vol. I. (ad- 
vertisement). 
Copies of the original pamphlet are scarce. The 
reprint has been made from an example in the possession 
of Prof. Newton. 
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tt, HANOVER SQUARE, 
March 21st, 1882. 
