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I Muft not forget to acknowledge the many kind Offers of Service which have 
been made me by my curious and learned Friends ({ome of which I have ac- 
cepted towards compleating this Work, by perufing the Manufcript Copies, and 
giving me their Advice, which I have found to be of great Advantage, tho’ none 
of them have thought proper to make any material Alterations in the defcriptive Parts 
of the Work. The moft confiderable Help I have received was from Dr. Mortimer, 
Secretary of the R. S$. whom I confulted in Relation to the proper claffical Latin 
Names, as they are placed together with the Engh/> Names I have given in the 
Catalogues at the Ends of the fecond and fourth Parts of the Book: There was a 
more than ordinary Difficulty in this, as the Subjects confifted moftly of Things 
which were never before defcribed, and confequently no claffical Latin names could 
be found to anfwer many of them; in thofe Cafes the Door took much Pains to 
confider what might be the moit proper Names for them. 
I am fenfible that in the Courfe of this Work there are many Errors of my own, 
and others of the Prefs; but I imagine none of them are fo very material as not to 
be corrected by every common Reader in the Courfe of their reading, fo that I 
think it not proper to trouble other People or myfelf with a long Errata. 
AD Dia TON Vtow RAGE 126. 
| Have had the good Fortune fince the Publication of the third Part of this Work, 
to meet with the GrRrEN GoLpFincu alive, which differs in fome things 
from the Defcription I have given it, which inclines me to believe that Mrs. Cannon's 
Bird was a Hen, and what | have fince feen is a Cock. They differ in the following 
Particulars: The Bill of this laft is of a fine Red, and I think rather thorter than in 
that I have figured ; the Rump, Coverts of the Tail, and the Tail itfelf, are all of a 
fine deep red Colour; the Belly is of a yellowifh Green, with fmall tranfverfe Bars 
and Spots of White acrofs it; the Shoulder, or Ridge of the Wing is Green, in- 
clining to Red; in all other Points it agrees with the Bird I have defcribed in Page 
128. This Bird is the Property of the moft obliging Mrs. Clayton, of Flower, in 
Surry, who was pleafed to communicate feveral curious living Birds in her Poffeffion 
to me; it was brought to England trom Lifbon, and is, as I am informed, a Native 
of the Brafls. 
SUBSCRIBERS NAMES omitted in the former LISTS. 
Benjamin Barlow, E/q. 
Mrs, Clayton, of Flower, i# the County cf Surry. 
Wuliam Denn, E/g. of Ongar, 7m Effex. 
A Philp Carteret Webb, H/g. &. R. 8. 
