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+------------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | Transcriber notes: | | | | P. iii. '(Callihplox)' changed to '(Calliphlox)'. | | P. 17. Closed quotes from Prince von Wied's remarks, but not | | certain. | | P. 19. Closed quotes of Burmeister at the end of the paragraph. | | P. 37. Added hyphen to 'Wry-neck'. | | P. 51. Closed quotes from Wallace's 'graphic description'. | | P. 60. 'the wign', changed 'wign' to 'wing'. | | P. 86. Added hypen to 'Green Flat-bill'. | | P. 109. 'hour' changed to 'hours'. | | P. 120. Illustration, 'Crotopahga' changed to 'Crotophaga'. | | P. 132. Taken hyphen out of 'HORN-BILLS PROPER' to read | | 'HORBILLS PROPER' | | P. 152. 'dimaeter' changed to 'diameter'. | | P. 155. 'Jerdon tell', changed 'tell' to 'tells'. | | P. 231. 'occassionally' changed to 'occasionally'. | | P. 255. "Pecock enhakyl": "Old English Text MT" font used. | | Corrected various punctuation. | +------------------------------------------------------------------+