CONTENTS. 



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 Advertisement to present Edition . . iv 



Tabular Index to the Orders and Families . . . v 



Explanatory Note on the plan of the Work . . . . vii 



PART I. LAND BIRDS. 



Dedication to M. J. C. TEMMINCK ..... 5 



Advertisement ........ 7 



Table of Contents, or Systematic Index of the Orders, Families, 



Genera, and Species of Land Birds . . . .9 



Introduction to the Study of Ornithology . . . .17 



ORDERS I. to XII ....... 33-246 



Index to the Orders, Families, and Genera, in Part 1. . ,247 



PART II. WATER BIRDS. 



Dedication to WILLIAM YARRELL, Esq. . . . .5 



Table of Contents, or Systematic Index of the Orders, Families, 



Genera, and Species, of the Runners, Probers, Skulkers, 



Stalkers, Sifters, and other Water Birds ... 7 



Introduction to the Study of Ornithology Further Observations on 



the Structure of Birds . . . . . . .15 



Tabular View of the British Birds, according to the arrangement 



followed in this work . . . . . .28 



ORDERS Xlll to XIX. ... . 33 26ti 



Index to the Orders, Families, and Genera, in Part 11. . . 267 



APPENDIX of recently observed Species . . . .269 



General Index to the Latin Names of the Orders, Families and 



Genera ........ 285 



General Index to the English Names of the Orders, Families, 



Genera, and Species, including the common and provincial 



names oi the latter .... .283 



