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On the reverse of the title-page in both these editions is: — Entered 

 according to the act of Congress, in the year one thousand eight hundred f 

 and thirty one, by R. Harlan, M. D. in the Clerk's office of the District ' 

 Court of the | United States, in and for the Eastern District of Pennsyl- 

 vania. | Philadelphia: | Printed by James Kay, Jun. & Co. | Printers to the 

 American Philosophical Society. | No. 4, Minor Street. 



Both these editions, similar to one another, differ in minor points of 

 typography from the Edinburgh edition. Loomis states that his copy 

 differs from the Edinburgh edition in typography. It is likely that the 

 several American editions of volume one were all printed from the same 

 setting. The reading matter, so far as I have noted it, is the same in the 

 two American editions as in the Edinburgh edition, also before me. 



A few differences in addition to the title-pages which will satisfactorily 

 identify the print ed-in-Philadelphia, volume one, editions, may be pointed 

 out: Typographical variation of the American editions from the Edin- 

 burgh edition, begin in the first page of the introductory address, (p. v), 

 second line. In the American print this line ends with the word " no "; 

 with the word " wish " in the Edinburgh edition. The printer's signatures 

 are different throughout. On page 1, the " A " in the American edition is 

 at the lower left hand corner; it is in the lower right and smaller sized, 

 in the Edinburgh volume. Finally, the pages at the back containing the 

 list of subscribers in the American editions runs over onto the sixteenth 

 page, while in the Edinburgh copy it is completed on the fifteenth. 



The pagination of the various editions is not different; the paper of the 

 American editions is softer than the other. The size of the leaves is 

 greater in the American editions, somewhat taller and half an inch wider. 

 After discussing volume one of the ' Ornithological Biography,' Stone, 

 in the paper previously cited, says that he knows of but the one edition 

 (i. e., the Edinburgh) of the remaining volumes. A copy of the American 

 edition of volume two has however recently come into my hands in a set, of 

 which volume one is the Carey and Hart, 1832, edition, full imprint of 

 which is given above; and volumes three, four and five the Edinburgh 

 edition. Volume two of this American edition has the following imprint : — 

 Boston: (which is in black-letter | Hilliard, Gray, and Company. | 

 MDCCCXXXV. The title-page is otherwise an exact transcription of 

 the corresponding Edinburgh edition, except that " &c. &c." becomes in the 

 American edition " Etc. Etc." On the reverse of the title of the American 

 edition is: — Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1835, | by 

 Victor Gifford Audubon and John Woodhouse Audubon, | in the Clerk's 

 Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. | J. D. Freeman, 

 Printer, | 110, Washington Street. This American edition of volume two 

 is printed throughout from an entire reset of type, any and every page of 

 which shows minor or greater differences from the Edinburgh, 1834, edition 

 of volume two. To the casual reader, besides the differences in the title- 

 page it may be pointed out that in the American edition the errata on | 

 page 580 (unnumbered in both editions) are omitted, corresponding cor- 



