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ihe name, place, habits, and ufes of any animal that occurs, either 

 in cabinets or collections, or in their native haunts; and may at 

 once afcertain whether the fpecimen prefented, be already known, 

 or a non-defcript fpecies or variety. 



The tranflator was particularly induced to undertake this edi- 

 tion, by a recommendation from very refpe&able literary authority, 

 the Authors of the Monthly Review, who, in the November num- 

 ber of the year 1787, warmly advife the publication of a Zoological 

 Synopfis in Englifh : For this purpofe, nothing can be better adapt- 

 ed than the work now offered to the public, at leaft fo far as the 

 merit of the original is concerned ; of the prefent edition it be- 

 comes its editor and tranflator to fpeak more modeftly. The tranf- 

 lation has been, and (hall continue to be, carried on with the ut- 

 mod poflible attention to accuracy and fidelity of verfion, and to 

 uniformity and perfpicuity of language. He has fhunned as much 

 as the nature of the fubje£t would allow, the employment of tech- 

 nical terms, having yet endeavoured to ufe Englifh words in fo 

 precife and definite a manner as to ferve every ufeful purpofe of 

 more recondite technical expreffions. It is taken from the laft edi- 

 tion of the Syjiema Naturae of Linnseus, as lately publifhed, by the 

 learned ProfeiTor Gmelin of the Univerfity of Goettingen.; and has 

 received large and numerous additions, which have been collected 

 ■by the tranflator, from the writings of fuch Zoologifts, Voyagers, 

 and Travellers, as had not fallen under the obfeivation, either of 

 the great Linnceus, or of his excellent fucceflbf. 



As the publication of fo very extenfive a work mult neceflariiy 

 be attended with confiderable expence, the mode of fubfeription 

 has been adopted ; and, encouraged by a highly refpectable lift 

 of fubferibers, the tranflator has ventured to publifh this Firjl 

 half-volume of thelmN-EAN System of Zoology. He trufts 



greatly 



