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few inftances; and for which alteration good reafons will be 

 given. 



The whole of this undertaking will be comprifed in three vo- 

 lumes ; the firft of which will contain the Accipitres and Pic* 

 of Linn*us ; the fecond will confift of the Pajferes and Galling of 

 the fame author ; and the third volume clofe the work with his 

 Grail* and Anferes. To each volume will be added a complete 

 Index of its contents, and in the laft, an Explanation at length 

 of the authors referred to; alfo, a Generic Catalogue of the Birds, 

 mentioned throughout the work. 



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In thefe Iheets will be found near four times the number of 

 Birds mentioned in the Syjlema Natur* j the additions to which, 

 will be drawn from the authors which have appeared fince that 

 publication, added to a great number of fpecies, not mentioned 

 before by any one. This we fhall be enabled to do, from the nu- 

 merous collections in Natural Hiftory *, which have been formed 

 of late years in England, and in which, in courfe, a multitude of 

 new fubjedts have been introduced from various parts of the 

 world j but more efpecially within thefe few years, from the in- 

 defatigable refearches of thofe who have made fo great difcoveries 

 in the Southern Ocean. 



* Among thefe, the magnificent one at Lehejler Houfe, formed by Sir Ajhton 

 Lever, ought to be particularly mentioned ; as likewife the favours received 

 from the infpeftion of numerous fubje&s, the produce of the laft and the former 

 voyages to the South Seds, in the poffeffion of Jo/. Banks, Efq; P. R. S. Soho 

 Square. 



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