OF MY (Lit ER AR Y ®LIPE, 
gentleman for his liberal communications refulting from the 
uncommon extent of his travels. 
I may here mention, that our firft acquaintance commenced 
on March 19th, 1766, when he called on me at my lodgings 
in St. Fames’s Street, and prefented me with that fcarce book 
Turner de Avibus, 8c. a gift I retain as a valuable proof of his 
efteem. An unhappy interruption of our friendfhip once took 
place, but it recommenced, I truft, to the content of both par- 
ties, in a fortunate moment, in March 1790. 
In 17691 added to the Britif> Zoology a third volume, in 
octavo, on the reptiles and fifhes of Great Britain. This was 
illuftrated with xvii plates. 
In the preceding year fir JosrpH Banks communicated to 
me a new fpecies of Pinguin, brought by captain Macbride from 
the Falkland lands. I drew up an account of it, and of all the 
other fpecies then known, and laid it: before the Royal Society. 
- They were pleafed to direét that it fhould be publifhed, which 
was done in this year, in the lviuth volume of the Philofophical 
Tranfoétions. It was accompanied by a figure. It is not a 
good one, the fkin having been too much diftended: but in the 
fecond edition of my Genera of Birds a mott faithful reprefenta- 
tion is given, taken from the life by doctor Reinhold Forfter. I 
named it Patagonian, not only on account of the fize, but be- 
caufe it 1s very common in the neighborhood of that race of 
tall men. 
My mind was always in a progreffive flate, it never could 
ftagnate ; this carried me farther than the limits of our ifland, | 
and made me defirous of forming a zoology of fome diftant 
country, by which I might relieve my pen by the pleafure of 
Cc the 
A Turrpb Vo- 
LUME OF Fisuxs, 
&c, 1769. 
Inpran Zooxzv- 
GY, 1709. 
