vi ADVERTI SEMEN T. 
The Second Index is a mere catalogue of the birds of the 
Planches Enluminees , in the order in which they were publilhed, 
with references to the Ornithologie. 
I have (befides the columns) left margin fufficient for nume- 
rals, as far as a thoufand, in order that the pofTeffor of the 
expenfive work the Planches Enluminees > may arrange and num- 
ber them according to any fyfcem he may prefer, and, by placing 
the numbers in the margin, readily find out any fubjeft he 
withes. 
The dulnefs of index-making has been a little abated by a 
few notes, which I have flung in, relative to the mifconceptions, 
or mifinformation, of my quondam friend Le Comte de 
Buff on. My remarks on a Angular obfervation on the ana- 
tomy of the Mole *, many years before I had the honor of his 
acquaintance, was the irritating caufe of his late refentment 
againft me : but poflibly the public will think (if they think it 
worthy attention) that he has purfued me with too much acri- 
mony. — I feledt only a few paflages, out of the multitude which 
this too lively writer has furniflied me with the means of point- 
ing out to the world. I leave the reft of the talk to thofe who 
have made the arts of depreciation their Rudy. I myfelf, 
* See a note of the article Mole in all the editions of my Britijh Zoology. 
thoroughly 
