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PREFACE. 



^JI^^HE greateft part of the following 

 ElTays have already appeared before 

 the public in Mr. Eduuards' Natural 

 Ilijlory^ but in a detached and unconneél- 

 ed form, and at an expence perhaps rather 

 too great for many who delight in Natural 

 Hiftory. 



It was therefore to accommodate fach, 

 and to aflifl: the curious in their re- 

 fearches, or any future writer upon this 

 fobjeél, that the editor has been induced 

 to this publication : and to make it ftill 

 more generally ufeful, there is added a ca- 

 talogue, in generical order, ia Englifh and 

 French, of the names of all the birds ^ 

 beqftsj fijhes^ infe^Sy plants, &c. &c. con- 

 A z tained 



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