"The T%EFACE, 



having a like difpofition of Toes, two Handing forward, and two backward 

 and in like manner hewing a hole in a Tree to build its Neft in. This I did 

 before fufpect, but am now afiur.ee! of by an exact description of this Bird I 

 met with in Jo.Faber his Explications of fome American Animals' of %ecchm. 



2. In making (Bellonius his greater red4eg d Partridge or Greek Partridge to be 

 a different kind from the common red-leg d Partridge, which upon diligent 

 comparing the Defcriptions and Hiftories, I find to be the fame with it. 



3. In putting down the Fringilla fyuria cum calcari Jlaudce, Pa<r. 188^ 

 for a diftind Species from the precedent. Bird, entitled Monttfringilla ma- 

 jor, or the great $r ambling. This miflake was committed by meer acci- 

 dent, and forgetfulnefs. 4. In the conjecture that the harm JMaximus, de. 

 fcribed pag. 261. was the Skua ofHoierus, whereas I find that our CatarraBes 

 defcribed pag. 2 6 5. is his Skua, the defcriptions exactly agreeing. 5. In put- 

 ting down the Bird entitled, Mas fera capite fubruffo minor for a diftinet Species , 

 whereas I am now afiiired by our Fowlers, that it is the Hen Golden-eye: I do 

 alio fufpect the Anas fera capite fubruffo major, defcribed for a diflincl kind in 

 pag. 2 8 2. to have been nootherthan a Young Cock- Golden-eye, thathadnot 

 moulted his Chicken-feathers. 6. In placing the Anas fera fufca or Pochard. 

 And 7. the HaVelda ofWormiws among the Pjrv.er or (?/^-Ducks,whereas they 

 belong to the Sea-kind. 18. In making the Bird defcribed, pag,2 8 p. under the 

 title otPhafcasfortaffe Gefnero, to be a diftinet Species, which I find by. compa- 

 ring the Birds themfelves to be a Hen-Wigeon. Befides thefe, I find remain- 

 ing ftill to be corrected, 1 . Amiftake about the fituation of the blmd-guts in 

 Birds : For they do not defcend from the ftomach downwards, but afcend 

 from the inteflinwn reftum upwards, being as it were two branches of the inte- 

 fiinum return, and ib in that refpeet differ not from the Blind-guts of Quadru- 

 peds,as is affirmed pag.7. v 2 . Among the Birds that want the back-toe,enume- 

 rated, pag. 3 . the 'Dottrel is omitted. 3 . I am now perfuaded that the Stella 

 Avis o^MdroVandus is a different kind from the Buftard, and that the Bird we 

 faw in theMarket at Modena was this Stellafox to my beft remembrance it was 

 much lefs than a Puftard, and therefore I revoke what was laid in contradi- 

 ction to Aldrovandm his affirmation, that the P>uftard is a ftranger to Italy : But it 

 is very likely that this Stella Avk is the fame with the Anas Campeftris o£<Bellonius. 

 Befides thefe the Reader fhall find corrected thofe overfights and errors noted 

 in the Uoc^^a,^ in the Latine, and others which I cannot now call to mind. 



Secondly, For additions there are fo many throughout the whole Work 

 that it would be too tedious to enumerate them, I mail only mention the 

 three principal and moft confiderable, which might pais for juft Tractates 

 on thofe Subjects. 



1. An Epitome of the Art of Fowling, collected«partly out of QlinasUccelle- 

 ria, written in Italian, but chiefly out of Genwfe Markhams Book, entitled, 

 Hungers pretention, or the Art of Fowling 5 fbmething alio being added out of 

 a late Englijh Book, entituled, An Epitome ofthe^Art of Husbandry, the Author 

 whereof was pleaf ed to conceal his name. j , 



2. An Idea of Falconry, being an abridgement of the Authors long fince 

 Englifhed and put together by TurberYde - y and of our own late and beft ap- 

 proved Writer Latham, with fomethingout of AldroVandw. 



3. Directions for the ordering of Singing Birds contracted, out of the 

 forementioned Epitome of the jirt of Husbandry, Olinas Uccelleria, and Aldro. 

 Vandus. In all which Difcourfes I have corrected fome miftakes in my 



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