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This volume features all 109 bird illustrations, 20 colour plates, and the text from Catesby's """"Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahamas"""". Annotating Catesby's writings from a modern perspective, the editor discusses the perception of each species during the colonial period, comments on its habits, and compares Catesby's observations with those of such other naturalists as John White, John Lawson, Alexander Wilson, and John James Audubon.

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&amp;Yacute;B eautiful in the simple accuracy of its drawings and historically interesting for its pictures and descriptions of species now extinct.<p> New Yorker

&amp;Yacute;B eautiful in the simple accuracy of its drawings and historically interesting for its pictures and descriptions of species now extinct. New Yorker

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Alan Feduccia is S. K. Heninger Professor Emeritus and former chair of the Department of Biology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His books include The Age of Birds, The Origin and Evolution of Birds, and Birds of Colonial Williamsburg.

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