In order to make this Work still more attractive and useful, the Editor in- 

 tends to introduce a new branch of our Natural History, without any additional ex- 

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This will be the NORTH AMERICAN SYLVA, or the History of our 

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 figured in a plate with the Birds, like that represented in the first plate of this Num- 

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THE 



CABINET OF NATURAL HISTORY 



AND 



Is desioned to embrace the higher and more interesting branches of Zoology; 

 viz: Ornithology and Mammalogy, together with an account of the sports and pas- 

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This work will be issued in numbers, about every five weeks, in a quarto form, 

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 plates, of Birds and Quadrupeds, drawn from nature, and executed in the best 

 style, with a perfect history of each object so represented. It will also contain 

 many interesting Anecdotes, relating to Natural History, and all other subjeet 

 which may give interest, comportable with the spirit of the work, as connected 

 with fishing, hunting, and shooting parties, the various clubs established for gym- 

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A thirteenth number will be added to the above, which will contain the Por- 

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