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in depriving my Labours o f that Reputation
which from your Patronage they will obtain.’
r i l f e I Im I been very curious in this
Colledtion o f Birds to make it a fatisfadorv
Addition to my former Volumes; fo I hope
it will be favoured with the fame Efteem You
have been pleafed to have for my other
Works, which is the higheft Willi o f
Honoured Sir,
Tour mofl humble Servant,
E leazlar A l b in.
P R E F A C E
T O T H E
R E A D E R .
H r 'H E Knowledge o f Nature has been always a Study fo
agreeable, that it has been the Purfuit o f the fin efl
Genius's in a ll Ages. The greatefl Men have applied them-
felves to it with the greatefl Satisfaction to their own Minds
and InflruCtion o f the Publick, to whom we are obliged
fo r their Labour.
I am perfuaded that thofe who perufe this TKork^ w ill
be fatisfied that they never faw a Collection o f Birds fo
intirely compleat in a ll its Branches as this is.
I have ufed a ll poffble Care to come near to the U fe
in every particular Bird\ and have reprefented to every
one's View the great Variety and Beauty o f Colours o f each,
with the nearefl Approach to Nature that A rt is capable
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