PREFACE. 



THE contents of the prefent volume, added to thofe of the 

 former ones, will, it is to be hoped, make good the pro- 

 mife made in the firft, viz. the giving cc a concife account of all 

 the Birds hitherto known ■," — to attain the knowledge of which, 

 every affiftance has been given to me by my various friends, and 

 no trifling labour beftowed by myfelf. 



Enough has been mentioned, in a former Preface, of the nature 

 of this undertaking, which- will occafion very little to be added in 

 the prefent ; a few things, however, feem neceflary to be here 

 mentioned, which are briefly the following. 



The Reader will remark the occafional references made to the 

 Britijh Mufeum, as well as to that of Sir AJloton Lever : — but it 

 muft be obferved, that fuch references could relate to thofe Birds 

 only which were found thcic icfpectively at the time when each 

 Genus was penned ; and will account for feveral others, now feen 

 in thofe repofitories, not to be foundin this work, which at firft 

 fight might appear to have been overlooked, though in reality 

 occafioned merely by the additions made to each, fince the parti- 

 cular parts were written. 



Thofe found in the private collections of feveral of my friends 

 have been referred to in their places j but, in refpec"t to thofe in 

 my own poflefiion, it is neceflary here to remark, that fuch are 



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