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OF BIRDS. 
ences of configuration, colour, and habits; but the grand 
distinctions are so few that a tolerably correct idea of this 
part of the animal kingdom may be formed, even by such 
a general and succinct view as that which we propose to 
give to the reader ; and we hope, by enlivening our descrip- 
tions with occasional illustrative anecdotes, to render our 
account interesting as well as instructive. 
