X INTEODTICTION. 



Besides the collections specially mentioned above, I have received 

 assistance in the present work from the following friends, nearly 

 all of whom have given valuable donations to the Museum : — 



The late Lord Lilford, Hon. Walter Rothschild (whose collec- 

 tion has always been at our disposal for comparison), Sir H. H. 

 Johnston, K.C.B., Consul Alfred Sharpe, C.B., and the following 

 gentlemen : — Ernst Hartert, W. D. Gumming, E. W. Gates, Howard 

 Saunders, F. J, Jackson, J. J. Quelch, F. C. McConnell, Surgeon- 

 Colonel Jayakar, Surgeon-Captain R. H. Penton, Charles Hose, 

 J. La Touche, C. B. Rickett, F. W. Styan, Rev. H. H. Slater, 

 Alex. Fry, and Colonel Swinhoe. 



R. BOWDLER SHARPE. 



British Museum (N. H.), 

 October 6, 1898. 



