INACCntATi: ll.l.rsTKATlUNS. l.'):5 



It is to 1)0 rcj^rcttcd, Ijowcvcr, tliiit in tlu; work of the inaj;iii- 

 tiule ami importance of the "New York Fauiiu" oltlic State nf 

 New York, the plates should be, as they are, so atrociously 

 executed, that for mutters of scientific examiiuition they are 

 all but useless, while as pictorial illustrations they are below 

 couteiupt. 



