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NOTICE. 
On presenting to the English reader, through the 
medium of a popular periodical, the first European 
edition of a work of which America has just cause 
to be proud, the publishers have a few words of 
explanation to offer regarding the improvements 
they have adopted. 
It will be seen, from the Memoir of Wilson in 
the present volume, that his portion of the American 
Ornithology consists of nine volumes quarto, the 
descriptive part of the concluding volume having 
been drawn up by Mr George Ord, of Philadelphia. 
In 1825; Mr Ord was again employed to prepare 
new editions of the seventh, eighth, and ninth 
volumes, and made considerable additions : in 1828, 
three supplementary volumes, by Charles Lucian 
Bonaparte, # appeared. 
The present edition will comprise not merely 
the whole of Wilson’s work, including the improve- 
* Prince of Musignano, son of Lucien Bonaparte, tlie brother of 
Napoleon. 
