PUBLISHERS' NOTE. 



As circumstances within the control of the editor have enabled 

 him to complete the revision of the work, that portion embracing 

 the Non-oscine Passeres and other remaining Land Birds, together 

 with all the Water Birds, is now issued as Part II., concluding the 

 treatise. 



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