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part of the undertaking, by obfervations formed on the fpot, 
in the ufes, manners, and migrations. Should, at prefent, no 
one be inclined to take the pen out of my hand, remarks from 
the other fide of the 4¢/antic, from any gentlemen of conge- 
nial ftudies, will add peculiar pleafure to a favorite purfuit, and 
be gratefully received. 
I muft reckon among my moft valued correfpondents on the 
New Continent, Doétor AtExanpER GARDEN *, who, by 
his long refidence in South Carolina, was enabled to commu- 
nicate to me variety of curious remarks and fubjects, as will 
appear in the following pages. | 
To the rich mufeum of American Birds, preferved by Mrs, 
Anna Biacxsury, of Orford, near Warrington, I am indebted 
for the opportunity of defcribing almoft every one known in 
the provinces of Ferfey, New York, and Connecticut. ‘They 
were fent over to that Lady by her brother, the late Mr. 
Afbton Blackburn ; who added to the fkill and zeal of a fportf- 
man, the moft pertinent remarks on the fpecimens he col- 
leGted for his worthy and philofophical fifter. 
In the foremoft rank of the philofophers of the Old Conti- 
nent, from whofe correfpondence I have benefited, I mutt 
place Doétor Peter Sim. Patzas, at prefent Profeffor of 
Natural Hiftory in the fervice of the illuftrious Empress of 
Rufia: he not only favored me with the fulleft remarks on 
the Zoological part of that vaft empire, moft of which he 
formed from actual travel and obfervation, but colleéted for 
my ufe various other remarks from the manufcripts of his 
predeceffors; efpecially what related to Kamtfchatka from thofe 
® Now refident in London. 
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