P R E F A C E.
IN the Preface to the Firft Volume, .the plan o f this Work has-
been mentioned, of which the prefent is a continuation, and-
contains the whole of the Pajferine, Columbine, and Gallinaceous
Orders. Thefe, as before, are difpofed, for the moft part, according
to the Lirmaan method of reparation into gepera s
having a frequent eye to the judicious alterations of our friend.
fhtmas Pennant, Efq; noticed in his Genera, of Birds.: however,
from the great number, of new fpecies which have come under
our infpeftion in almoft every genus,, new lights have been-
thrown on fome fubjefts, whereby we have been obliged, in
fome few inftances,. to deviate a trifle from the fentiments con-
tained in the laft-named work j and for which fuch reafdns are
given, in their refpe&ive places, as have feemed requifite. The
above will alfo account for the. introduftion of a new Genus, not
having heen able to arrange the fpecies which' form it under any
of the old ones-.: to this is.given the. name of T inamou * ; and,
as ufual, a plate is given of one of the fpecies, in order to illuf-
trate the reft of the genus.
» This name has heen given to them by.the natives in the parts where they,
are found.
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