A 
NATURAL HISTORY 
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BIRDS. 
The moft of which have not hitherto been either figured or defcribed, 
and the Reft, by Reafon of Obfcure, or too brief Defcriptions with- 
out Figures, or of Figures very ill defigned, are hitherto but little 
known. 
CONTAINING 
The Reprefentations of thirty-mine Birds, engraven on thirty-feven Copper-Plates , 1 
after curious Original Drawings from Life j together with a full and accurate 
Defcription of each. 
To which are added, by way of Appendix, 
Sixteen Copper-Plates, representing the Figures of many curious and undefcribed 
Animals, fuch as Qua drupedes (both Land and Amphibious) 
S e r p e n t s. Fishes and Insects: 
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The whole Containing 
Fifty-three Copper-Plates, which is the full Number given in each of the foregoing Parts of 
this Work. Every Bird, Beast, &c. is colour’d from the Original Painting, ac- 
cording to Nature. 
PART IV. and Laft. 
^/George Edwards, 
Library- Keeper to the Royal College ^Physicians. 
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LONDON: 
Printed for the Author, at the College of Phyjlcians , in Warwick- L am* 
M.DCG.LI. 
