?he TXEFACE. 



me at this prefent in Cages. 4. The ^obin-relbreaft will not touch a hairy 

 Caterpillar, but will gladly eat any fmooth one that I have given him . and 

 there is no better way ipeedily to tame and make wild Birds fin* than to give 

 them a pleating Infed or two daily, j. Neither (lender no°r thick-bill'd 

 Birds but will gladly eat Spiders, as I have experienced in fome. 



I have no more to add, but only to advertife the Reader, that by the 

 breadth of a Bird we underftand the diftance between the tips of the Wines 

 extended- by the flag-feathers, or beam-feathers, or quit 'feathers, or prime fet 

 tners, ov Jails of the Wing, we mean thofe of the firft row. That when 

 we fay from Bill to Tail, we mean from Bill-point to Tail-end : That for 

 brevities fake, and want of Englifn words, I was in this Tranflation often 

 forced to ufe Latine, as for the circle about the Pupil of the Eye, Iris and in 

 the Plural, Inks- for the liminary ftomach defcribed pace 8. Echinus and 

 fome others : And fo I bid him 



Farewell. 



Errata. 



PJgei 3 Hne i o. for or read as. 22.^1. Wit wall. 38.14. Glafs. +6. $o. fir' the read to. & 6. after a&- 

 kdaddbythe. 64. i8.0ripelargus. 65. 4. Cloak. 66. 39 . after feveral add forts. 94. 56. Pauwius. 

 iop.32.unulual. 129. 27. after beadj>**Mof. 135. 26. lower. ' 137.20.down. 143. 43. for of read to 

 153. 32. wallowifli. 15p.32.gate. 2c1.5j.Line. 203.Birds. 2 3 3. .2 2. dele the reft their lower. 252.3d. 

 after faith add being. 254.39^611 or eight. 2 56.17. cinereous, 257. 16. after lower add joynt 2 do. 17 

 iixorfeven. 270. 11. tooth. 294. 17. eight or nine. 3o8.8.Eggs.3ii. 3 8.Aberdovey. 332. 27. > final! 

 Wbroad. 337. 45. for yard readioot. 369,1%. Schellent. 378. 22. Anas. 379. 2.1pecati apoa. 38s 

 41. /or White rWYolk. r * J " 



K//^ */jc blanipage^o, tine 1 2 iw'tf /%? jwr</;, ( Tab.2. Fig.7.) That.page tf.line 45 

 *wfA ^e/<? ( 9. Tab. 2. ) Page^. line 25. to <w* thejewords, In the Icflerrows of covert- 

 feathers is alfo a great fpot of white. Page 3 74. this Figure is omit- 

 ted. The Birds marked with an Afterifc are fuch as we our felves 

 faw not, nor defcribed, but borrowed their defcriptions of others. 

 \ f |^ -"^^fc. But others there are befides which ought to have been marked, 

 viz. Bontius his Indian Raven, page 126. Toucan 128. Jaguacati 

 guacu 147. The Dodo i53.Mitu i58.Pauxi i6o,Mituporang/W. 

 Jacupema 165. Jambu 167. Damafcus Partridge Ibid. Indian Quail 

 171. Canne-petiere 179. Attinga guacu mucu 198. Calandra 208. 

 Giarola209. All the Birds defcribed page 210, 211. Hummingbirds 230. though we 

 have often feen many forts of thefe. Wood Titmoufe 243. Aldrovands firft Yellow- 

 hammer 269. Cariama 276. Anhima Ibid. Aldrovands third afh-coloured Heron 278. 

 Squaiotta 281. The other green-footed Water-hen 313. Another green-footed Water- 

 hen of Bellonim 314. All the Water-hens defcribed pag. 317, 318. The Penguin 322. 

 Greater crefted Doucker of Aldrovand^'^. Water-hare or crefted Mexican Doucker 

 Ibid. The fharp tail'd IJIand-Duck of Wormius^6^. Ipeca guacu 383. 



Some other literal faults or omiffions, and errours in pointing there are, which becaufe 

 they are obvious and eafie to be corrected, and cannot likely occafion any doubt or mi- 

 ftake, I have not here put down, left I (hould feem too much to diftruft either the Rea- 

 ders judgment, or his ingenuity. For my part, I can eafily pardon (b few faults of the 

 Printers as I have obferved in this Work, efpecially being printed from a Manufcript 5 as 

 knowing by experience how difficult a thing it is for the moft quick-lighted, circumfpecl: 

 and diligent Corrector that is, to efpy all the faults that the Compofitors will commit, 

 even in one (fleet of Paper, at once or twice reading over. 



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