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at my bedside, when, from my too close application 

 to business, and over exertions I needed his advice 

 and medical aid, as well as his being the humane 

 and feeling attendant upon my family. I might 

 swell out a list of the names of medical friends 

 and thus give vent to my feelings, were it of any 

 use to them. I cannot however omit acknowledg- 

 ing the civilities of Dr. Headlam, Dr. McWhirter 

 and Dr. Thomas Trotter, well known over all 

 England as physician to the fleet. My thanks 

 are also due to Mr. Henry Edmonston for his 

 good wishes to see the "History of British Birds" 

 appear among the first of publications of the kind. 

 For this end both he and his brother Mr. Laurence 

 Edmonston exhausted the ornithological stores of 

 Zetland, and our other northern isles, which have 

 enabled me to add some new matter to this Avork. 

 To these ornithological friends I must add G. 

 T. Fox, Esq., of Weston, both as a contributor 

 in rummaging the stores of the metropolis for 

 specimens, and also as being equally desirous to 

 see the books appear in perfection. My thanks 

 are also due to several gentlemen amateurs in 

 distant parts; but as a friend, the warmest of the 

 warm and as standing prominently conspicuous, is 

 J. F. M. Dovaston, Esq., of Westfelton in Shrop- 

 shire* for his ardent desire to afford his aid to the 

 "History of British Birds," and his having been 

 in some instances enabled to do so from his 

 close observations (by means of his ornithoscope) 

 of the habits of several of them. In this pursuit 

 he was cordially joined by his two friends, John 

 Clavering Wood, Esq., of Marsh Hall, Salop, and 



* I was visited by this gentleman in October, 1823. 



