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PREFACE om 
of colour or form; that had no quality to recom: 
mend it to our attention. 
Witu refpeé to the arrangement, we have 
endeavoured to prefent it as fyfematically to 
our readers, as an abridgment could poffibly 
admit. That the ftudent might know of what 
fpecies ‘every bird and beaft was, which this 
Volume contains, they are defcribed in the or- 
der of their re{pe€tive claffes. Whenever there 
were more of a fpecies than the limits of the 
Work would admit of being defcribed, they 
- are {pecified by name, according to the mo% 
accurate naturalifts. 
Ir being the defire of the Proprietor of this 
Work to render it as complete as in his power, _ 
he has taken all poflible care to give the moft 
corre&t defcriptions of the different Breasts, 
Birps, INsectTs and FLowears. He hopes 
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