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iminediately follow this under the appellation of a Synopsis 

 of the Birds of North America, call on my friends, Messrs 

 Adam and Charles Black, on the North Bridge of Edinbm-gh, 

 and they will hand it to you. Now, Reader, farewell ! may 

 you be successful in all your undertakings ! may you be hr^ppy 

 abroad and at home ! and may the study of the admirable 

 productions of Nature ever prove as agreeable to you as it has 

 been to me. 



JOHN J. AUDUBON. 



Edikburoh, 1st May 1839. 



