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ADVERTISEMENT. 
In this the only European edition of Wilson’s 
American Birds, the whole work (in the original 
edition in nine volumes quarto — here in three 
volumes) is, for the first time , regularly arranged ; 
so that it is now equally accessible to the general 
reader and the ornithologist. The interesting 
biographical Memoir by Mr Hetherington, an 
esteemed writer, prefixed to the first volume, 
is the best account of Wilson hitherto published. 
The fourth volume contains the valuable American 
Ornithology of Prince Charles Lucian Bonaparte ; 
