XCV1 
INTRODUCTION. 
each enumerated a few of our birds. But these, 
from the nature of the publications in which they 
have been introduced, can be considered only as 
catalogues of names, without the detail of specific 
particulars, or the figured and coloured represen- 
tations of the birds themselves. This task, the 
hardest of all, has been reserved for one of far 
inferior abilities, but not of less zeal. With the 
example of many solitary individuals, in other 
countries, who have succeeded in such an enter- 
prize, he has cheerfully engaged in the undertaking, 
trusting for encouragement solely to the fidelity 
with which it will be conducted. 
