iv EDITOE'S KOTICE TO THE TOTJKTH EDITION. 



used only as family appellatives, and not as the titles of 

 orders. 



Into the merits of the present work we need not enter. 

 It is admirably adapted to the perusal of the young, and of 

 those who, though disclaiming pretensions to recondite in- 

 quiry, yet love the works of creation, and delight to trace the 

 habits of the feathered tribes, whether in the wood or on 

 the mountain, on the lake or the morass, along the shores or 

 on the bosom of the briny deep. 



W. C. L. MAETIN. 



