The T%E FACE. 



The common Swallow ,the Swift, the common (Blackbird, the Houfe-Voye, the 

 G(oyflon Qrow, the Wit wall, and the Dottrel. I might add hereto the Canada Goo/e 

 in the ieventieth Plate, for I now perfuade my felf that the Bird graven in' 

 Plate 71. is the fame with it. The Sheldrake was through miftake twice 

 figured in Plates 70. and 71. fo was the Auk or ^a^prMll in Plates 64. and 

 6y The figures of the ^ockOu^el, Bittern, and Stone-Curlew fir ft graven, 

 though they were paiTable enough, yet having afterwards gotten very exact 

 Figures of thole Birds,we caufed them alfo to be Engraven. 



The whole Work we have divided into three Books. In the firft we treat 

 of Birds in general ; in the fecond of Land- fowl • in the third of Water-Fowl. 

 The fecond Book we have divided into two parts; The firft whereof 

 contains Birds of crooked Beak and Talons -The fecond, fuch whofe Bills and 

 Claws are m ore fireight. The third Book is tripartite : The firft part takes 

 in all Birds that wade in the waters, or frequent watery places, butfwim not • 

 The fecond, fuch as are of a mtSdle nature between fwimmers and waders, or 

 rather that partake of both kinds, fbme whereof are cloven-footed, and yet 

 fwim; others whole-footed, but yet very long-leg'd like the waders : The 

 third is of whole-footed, or fin-toed Birds, that J wim in the water. 



As for fabulous Birds, fuch as are confefledly fo, vi%. Phenixes, griffins, 

 Harpyes, ^uk, and the like, I have omitted them, as being no part of our fub- 

 ject, and all that can be laid of them having been more than once written 

 already. Ihavealfb omitted fbme that I only fuipected for fictitious, as the 

 Scythian Bird,the Acjuila Heteropus,Scc. Yet becaufe I would not rely too much 

 upon my own judgment, I have put in the Appendix the defcriptions of fome 

 of that nature out of Hernandez^, which I refer to the Readers cenfare. 



It remains that I make a grateful mention of fuch of our learned and wor- 

 thy Friends, as have given us any confiderable information or affiftance ; as 

 well to do them right, as to acquaint the Reader whom we mean by fome 

 names recorded in this Work. Thole were Sir Thomas Brown of Norwich be- 

 fore remembred : Francis JeJJop Efq ; of Broom-hall in SheffieldBanfh,Yorkshire, 

 who lent us the Defcriptions and Caies of many rare Birds, and diicovered 

 and gave us notice of many Species thereabout, which we knew not before 

 to be native of England : Sir Philip Skippon of Wrentham near B [thorough in the 

 County of Suffolk, Knight, who communicated the Pictures of feveral Birds 

 we wanted : And Mr. %alph John/on of Brignal near Greta Bridge in Yorkshire, 

 a Perfon of lingular skill in Zoology, efpecially the Hiftory of Birds, who be- 

 fides the Defcriptions and Pictures of divers uncommon, and fomeunde- 

 f cribed both Land and Water-fowl, communicated to us his Method of Birds 

 whereby we were in fome particulars informed, in many others confirmed 

 his judgment concurring with ours in thedivifions and Characteriftic notes 

 of the Genera. 



Thus much may fuffice to have fpoken by way of Preface of the Work in 

 general. 



It may now be expected that I give fome account of the Englifh Tranflati- 

 on. But I have not much to fay concerning it ; I fliall only acquaint the Rea- 

 der what I have therein amended, and what I have thereto added. 



Firft, The errors and miftakes which fince this Work was published I have 

 difcovered, and in the TranflatiOn noted or corrected are thefe. The firft 

 miftake is in the placing of the Toucan, fal fly called the Brafilian Tie, among 

 the Birds of the <Pie*kind: It properly belonging to the Woodpecker Tribe, a s 



( a ) having 



