XX PREFACE. 
I Jhall prefently conclude this Preface, and hope the Reader will excufe 
its Length. As I never" till very lately had any defign to appear in 
Print, I have negleSied to fludy the Art of writing correEily, and am 
fenftble of the many Faults that may be found in this Bool ; but hope the 
candid Reader will overlook them, fmce my chief Aim was rather to be 
underfiood, than to write correEily. 
G. E. 
addenda. 
fl^ H E following Accounts are taken out of V yages, and relate 
I to the Kmg of the Vultures, Page 2 of this Book; and they com- 
in^o hand after the Defcriptions were printed, I have placed them here. 
"^Navarette in his Voyages in Spanijh, Page 300, mentions Rey de les 
Zopilotes, tranflated in Churchill' ^ ColleElion of V oyages,Vo\. i. Page 235, 
where he fays, . “ That at Acapulco he faw the King of the Zopilotes, 
“ which are the fame we call Vultures, it is one of the fineft Birds 
“ that may be leen. I have often heard it prais’d, and, as I thought, 
‘‘ they over-did it ; but when I law the Creature, I thought the De- 
“ fcription far fhort of it.” 
Navarette in another Place of the above Tranflation, Page 46. fpeaks 
thus : “ But the gayeft and fineft Bird I have feen, is the King of the 
“ Copilotes, which I faw feveral times in the Port of and never 
had enough of looking at hiru, ftill more and more admiring his 
“ Beauty, Statelinefs and Grace.” This Spattif Author has ufed z and 
c indifferently in the beginning of the Name, they founding equally 
and meaning the fame Bird. 
Sir Flans Shane favour’d me with thefe Remarks, and we think, that 
they can relate to no other Bird but the King of the V ultures defcribed 
in Page 2. What is now mentioned may ferve pretty certainly to fix 
his native Place, which before we did not know. 
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