To the READER. 
and Catefby *, fome few excepted, which are referred to 
the Planches enluminees , publifhed at Paris , and marked 
here PL enl. fo as Catejby with a fingle C. and thofe which 
are common to Great Britain and America , to the Britijh 
Zoology. 
The Animals which have recently been difcovered in 
North America , or overlooked by Mr. Catejby , are diftin- 
guifhed by N. S. marking a New Species * 5 and by B. and 
Muf BL The fir ft authority is from a Collection formed 
by a Gentleman in his voyage to Newfoundland \ the feconcl, 
from a moil feledfc and numerous Collection of American 
Animals, belonging to a Lady in Lancajhire. 
The New Species, in the Catalogue of Birds, I had 
leave to infert here from Mr. Pennant's manufcript ; and 
thofe oflnfedis are taken from my own manufcript de- 
scriptions of fuch Infedts as were not clefcribed by Dr. 
Linnaus. 
The print prefixed here reprefents an elegant little 
Falcon, drawn and engraved from a fine Ipecimen lately 
brought over from North America . 
N. B. The Animals marked E are of E u ropeah Origin \ 
having been introduced there by the Spaniards or Eng- 
YiSh, after the difcovery of the Blew World : and thofe 
'marked Eur. afe originally natives of both Continents , 
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