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PREFACE. 
amount of practical experience brought to bear upon the 
gubject, so as to render it as complete and correct as possible. 
The information contained in the more bulky and ex- 
pensive works of Bechstein, Sweet, Kidd, and other autho- 
rities, is here presented in a condensed and available form., 
by one who is himself so gTeat a lover of birds, that he 
gladly avails himself of this, and every opportunity, of con- 
tributing to that kind of knowledge which may tend to 
render their state of captivity as agreeable to themselves, 
and as ministrative of pleasure to their possessors, as 
may oe. 
Hy. a. 
