d e d i c a t i o n .
Tis certain, brute Animals were placed amongil us for
nobler Ends than juft to kill and eat, and to a Mind
athirit tor Knowledge, as all unprejudiced are. An Acquaintance
with the A ¿lions, Views, and Defigns of thefe
Creatures mull be an higher Gratification than ever thev
can yield in the Field or the Dining-Room; this is a
1 ruth You have reminded our Gentry of, and offered
them a fair Pattern to copy after. Your Name, S i r
Will fta„d firft ,n the Lift of thofe who ihall think
the 1 ltle of a Philofopher, no Abatement to that of a
Gentleman, and for which, the World is obliged to make
You its publick Acknowledgments: 5Tis not in my Power
to make You mine, for the many and great Favours
You have conferred on me, otherwife than by this unfeigned
Profeflion, how much I am,
H o n o u r e d S i r ,
Tour mofi Obliged,
and mofi. Devoted
Humble Servant,
E l e a z a r A lbino
T O T H E .
R E A D E R .
Have at length acquitted my fe lf of the Pro*
mife I made the Publick of a Second Volume o f
my Natural Hiilory of Birds, and hope’tw ill
find that favourable Reception the former met
with among the Curious. I can affure them
Ji have not been wanting in my Care and Application in the
Paintings, all the Drawings having been taken from the
Sutyeids themfelves, and the Defcriptions agreeable thereto.
i he Learned have been long fenfible how defective DearTeJ
° ™ ards a Natural Hifiory of the Animal and
Vegetable World without Figures, which when. in proper
Colour give us a Pleafure, and certainly next to a View of
the Things themfelves. I have in this Work been parti
cularly indufinous to procure all the Engliih Birds I
could by my own, or the Interefi of my Friends. From the
Time I undertook my Natural Hiilory of Infe&s / had
™ Hmbimnof making all imaginable Progrefs in ’paintinr
.e natural Products of th/s IJland, and have now an Hif-
tory of an hundred and eighty different Spiders, in their proper
Colours ready to be
a To