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Transcriber’s Note:
The following inconsistencies were noted and retained:
Grous and Grouse John Bullow and John Bulow Ingalls and Ingals Lehman and Leehman lents and lints Magdaleine and Magdeleine Islands oppossum and opossum waggons and wagons Schuylkill and Schuylkil arcuato-declinate and arcuate-declinate cæca and cœca Macculloch and M’Culloch
The following are possible errors, but retained:
unrol “at the height of fifty years or more” John Quincey Adams Daniel Boon “The matin calls” Persimons pork-rhind p. 487 of Vol. II should possibly be page 435 of that volume.
The Errata on page 632 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.SS.L. & E.
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