| Item Description: | "The figures and descriptions contained in the works entitled 'The birds of America, ' and 'Ornithological biography ... ' having been issued in the miscellaneous manner which was thought best adapted to the occasion ... seemed to require a systematic index, in which the nomenclature should be corrected, and the species arranged agreeably to my present views. This Synopsis, then, will afford a methodical catalogue of all the species ... described ... in the works above named."--Pref. |
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