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5671. NATURAL HISTORY, Buffon and.—

You must not presume too strongly that your comb-footed bird is known to M. de
Buffon. He did not know our panther. I gave
him the striped skin of one I bought in Philadelphia,
and it presents him a new species
which will appear in his next volume.—
To Francis Hopkinson. Washington ed. ii, 74.
(P. 1786)