To the READER. 
¥ Had hinted in the Preface to the third volume of Kalnf $ 
j[ Travels, that I could publifh but an imperfeCt and 
fiuall catalogue of North American animals ; and there- 
fore declined to give it. Since that time, I have been 
prefted by fome worthy friends to publifh that catalogue, 
fuch as it is ; and what is ftill more, I have been favoured 
with ample materials by a Gentleman, who is forming a 
.collection for a Natural Hiftory of North America , and 
hopes by this to incite the inquifitive and learned refident 
in that country, to fearch, and to tranfmit to their friends 
in England , the productions of their feveral provinces. 
The Zoology of the frit four dalles of animals in Great 
Britain , has been very accurately and compleatly pub- 
lished ; that of the country of the defcendants of Great- 
Britain ought with moil propriety to follow, as it interefcs 
the Mother Country molt. Thefe reafons had a great 
weight with me ; and I offer this fmall catalogue merely as 
an eiTay towards forming a more compleat Natural Hiftory 
of that extenfive continent. To inftruCt the Collectors, 
I Have added to this lilt fome'fhort directions for the beft 
method of preferving and trahfporting the various fubjeCts 
of Natural Hiftory. 
The Quadrupeds of this lift are referred to the Synopfis 
of Quadrupeds of Mr. Pennant *, the Birds, Filh, Reptiles, 
Infects,- and Cruftacea, to Linnaus, Brijfcn , Mr. Edwards, 
and 
