m4 aad 
PRE Peac E. 
AHIS work is. profeffedly a compila- 
tion, but it would have been ems 
i. and unneceflary, to have re- 
ferred every paflage to the author from 
whom it was taken. 
- Candour, however, requires the acknow- 
a ledgment, that Linnaus, Burron, Pen- 
want, and Larnam have furnifhed almoft. 
the whole of the materials, although other 
natural hiftorians of lefs note, have oc- 
eafionally been confulted. a 
It is intended to comprize the fix orders 
of birds, arranged according to the fyftem 
of Linn 2£us. 
The objeé propofed, ae to combine | 
amufement with inftrution, thofe parts 
which are merely defcriptive of the plu- 
mage, or the colours of the birds, are in- 
troduced as little as appeared confiftent 
with the whole of the defign; and a flyle 
has been attempted fuitable He the capacity 
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