PREFACE. vii 
fined sense of duty, and so fondly cherished, he did not live to 
accomplish. 
The succeeding volume will be published without delay, the 
plates for it being all engraved. In that the public may expect 
a biographical account of Mr. Wilson, compiled from the most 
authentic materials in the possession of his executors ; a complete 
index to the whole, and a list of subscribers, which will conclude 
the American Ornithology. 
GEORGE ORD. 
Philadelphia^ January IQM, 1814. 
THE Editor having been authorized by the publisher to re- 
vise the volume, he applied himself with zeal to the undertaking ; 
and in order to render the work more useful to the American Or- 
nithological student, he conceived it would be proper to make the 
following alterations in the nomenclature : 
Ardea Ludoviciana 
Ardea Americana 
Tantalus ruber 
T. albus 
Anas fuligula 
A. rubidus 
Jlrdea leucogaster. 
Gras Jlmericana. 
Ihis ruher, 
I. albus, 
Alias rufitorques, 
A. Jamaicensis. 
The first column contains the names of the original edition. 
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