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Their vagrant voyage; and now as if becalm'd 



'Tween shore and shore at anchor seem'd to sleep. 



Around those shores the fowl that fear the stream 



At random rove : hither hot Guinea sends 



Her gadding troop ; here, 'midst his speckled dames, 



The pigmy chanticleer of Bantam winds 



His clarion ; while supreme in glittering state 



The Peacock spreads his rainbow train with eyes 



Of sapphire bright, irradiate each with gold ; 



Meantime from every spray the Ring-doves coo, 



The Linnets warble, captive none, but lur'd 



By food to haunt the umbrage : all the glade 



Is life, is music, liberty, and love." 



English Garden, Book iv. 



In consulting the Notes it is necessary the reader should 

 know that, in order to avoid repetition and to save room, 

 in describing the species of each genus, the specific name 

 only is given. Thus, under Falco, the Eagle, Hawk, &c. 

 instead of Falco Chrysaetos, will be found, The Chrysaetos, 

 instead of Falco Ossifragus, The Ossifragus, and so on ; 

 so that the student will only have to add the generic term 

 Falco to the specific one Chrysaetosy and thus of every 

 other genus respectively, to obtain the scientific names of 

 every species throughout the work. As far also as they 

 can be ascertained, the various provincial names of the 

 different species of birds, are added ; of the first utility in 

 the study of ornithology. For the supply of this desidera- 

 tum, besides his own resources, the author is greatly 

 indebted to the Ornithological Dictionary of Colonel 

 Montagu,* a work which, for its accuracy, will be ever 



* Those who desire to obtain Biographical Particulars of this 

 distinguished naturalist, who was a native of Wiltshire, but died 

 at Knowles, near Kingsbridge, in Devonshire, in 1815, will find 



