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of, having made a ll the Drawings from each B ird itfe lf
and not from any other Draining or Copy
1 need not put the Reader in mind how life lets bare D e
fcnpttom only o f B ird, are, without the Reprefentatiom o f
— B mU«“ «rat Colours.- To fuppfy therefore
this D efeS l has been the Scope and View o f this JVork.
I An{ i ■ H H t m Creation admirable,I
than the beauteous Colours o f the feather'd Part o f it and
as nothing is more pleafmg to many Perfons than to keep thefe
Creatures by them, fo r a SubjeB o f their conftant Jdmira-
tion> therefore a is, that I have taken fuch Pains, to be fa
very exaB in the mofl lively Reprefentation o f them in their
mojl beautiful Colours.
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O l R Robert A bd / , B art.
& Sir Anthony Thomas A b d y , Bart.
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Tbe Right Honourable the Lord Burlington,
Tw o Books.
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Serjeant Baines
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