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CHAPTER XVI. 
NOTE AND ADDENDA BY THE AMERICAN PUBLISHERS, 
Ww: have taken the liberty of transposing 
some portions of the foregoing pages from 
the London edition, having ascertained that 
chronological mistakes had been made by the 
fair authoress in preparing her interesting sketch 
of Audubon, and we would further say, that as 
she appears not to have been aware of the pub- 
lication of his second great work, the “ Quad- 
rupeds of North America,” (which has not been 
advertised, we believe, in Europe,) it has been 
deemed by us essential to mention it, and to 
subjoin the following particulars :— 
When Audubon had finished his great edi- . 
tion of the “Birds of America,” and had also 
published a synopsis of the species inhabiting 
our country, (which was issued in Edinburgh, in 
1839,) leaving the hospitable shores of Britain, 
and parting with many highly valued friends, 
he embarked for his native land, and after a 
tedious, although not otherwise unpleasant voy: 
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