PRB Rodi Bes 
‘HIS work is profeffedly a compila- 
, tion, but it would have been em- | 
barraffing, and unneceflary, to have re- 
ferred every paflage to the author from 
whom it was taken, oe 
 Candour, however, requires the acknow- 
Jedgment, that Linnaus, Burron, Pen- 
-wawt, and Laruam have furnifhed almoft 
the whole of the materials, ‘ although other. - 
natural hiftorians of - lefs. note, haye OC- 
~-cafional lly been confalted: — 
It is intended to comprize the fix orders 
of birds, arranged according to the ee 
Or Linnaeus, 
The objeet propofed, Gi to soinbitt | 
amufement with inftru@tion, thofe “parts 
which are merely defcriptive of the plu- 
mage, or the colours of the birds, ave in- 
troduced as little as appeared confiflent 
with the whole of the defign; and a flyle 
has been attempted luitable to the capacity 
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