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Transcriber's Note:
The following inconsistencies were noted and retained:
subterminal and sub-terminal College Yard and College-yard Jer falcon and Jerfalcon foreneck and fore-neck acknowledgement and acknowledgment Hackmatack, Hackmetack, hackmitack Piercey and Piercy gray and grey Magdalene, Magdeleine, Magdaleine Islands Pittsburg and Pittsburgh Schuylkil and Schuylkill vermilion and vermillion grouse and grous aerial and ærial teasing and teazing sunrise and sun-rise characterised, characterized Huckleberry and Huckle-berry cupshaped and cup-shaped Bunting and Buntling pokeweed and poke-weed Red-wing and Redwing Charleston and Charlestown Linnæan and Linnean north-eastern and northeastern dog wood and dog-wood.
The following are possible errors, but retained:
befal racoon persimons musquitoes tarpauling mollasses Carribbean tipt capt Chesapeak cruize chuse begrimmed Marratees pacan.
In the entries for the Rosa Rubiginosa and Fringilla Zonotrichia, the question marks are as printed.
In the entry for the Cardinal Grosbeak, the author says, "I have represented a pair of these beautiful birds on a branch of the Wild Olive." but the following entry is for the Wild Almond.
In the entry for the Pinnated Grous, a page number is missing.
In the entry for the Great American Shrike, the volume number for Amer. Ornith. is missing.
Headings are missing for a number of the plant sections.
The Errata on page 580 have been corrected in the text.
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ORNITHOLOGICAL BIOGRAPHY.
ORNITHOLOGICAL BIOGRAPHY, OR AN ACCOUNT OF THE HABITS OF THE BIRDS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA; ACCOMPANIED BY DESCRIPTIONS OF THE OBJECTS REPRESENTED IN THE WORK ENTITLED THE BIRDS OF AMERICA, AND INTERSPERSED WITH DELINEATIONS OF AMERICAN SCENERY AND MANNERS.
BY JOHN JAMES AUDUBON, F.R.S.S.L. & E.
FELLOW OF THE LINNEAN AND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETIES OF LONDON; MEMBER OF THE LYCEUM OF NEW YORK, OF THE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF PARIS, THE WERNERIAN NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH; HONORARY MEMBER OF THE SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY OF MANCHESTER, AND OF THE SCOTTISH ACADEMY OF PAINTING, SCULPTURE, AND ARCHITECTURE; MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, OF THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES AT PHILADELPHIA, OF THE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETIES OF BOSTON, OF CHARLESTON IN SOUTH CAROLINA, &C. &C.
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