About the Cover: The cover illustration is from volume 2 of the folio edition of Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon's landmark 10-volume work, Histoire naturelle des oiseaux. Paris: De 1'Imprimerie Royale, 1770-1786. The title is held in the Enders Ornithology Collection at Trinity College. The collection comprises a large rare book and manuscript collection, along with comprehensive holdings of modern titles and long runs of journals, all housed in Trinity's special collections, the Watkinson Library. In addition, the Enders Ornithology Collection maintains a substantial group of recent and current titles in the circulating stacks of the Trinity College Library, along with online ornithology journals and a major wildlife and ecology database. Additional information about Trinity College's special collections is available at: www.trincoll.edu/depts/library/watkinson/.