PREFACE. vii 



The succeeding volume will be published without delay, the 

 plates for it being all engraved. In that the public may expect 

 a biographical account of Mr. Wilson, compiled from the most 

 authentic materials in the possession of his executors ; a complete 

 index to the whole, and a list of subscribers, which will conclude 

 the American Ounithology. 



Fluladdphiaf January i9th» iSii, 



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