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been used in compiling the present reprint. The Editor 

 has succeeded in matching the type and paper ; and as the 

 pagination and even the misprints in the original have been 

 scruj)ulously copied, so as to produce an exact facsimile, it 

 can be quoted as the original. 



In conclusion, the Editor begs to tender his sincere 

 thanks to the owners of the above enumerated copies for 

 so generously intrusting such valuable tracts to his care ; 

 thus enabling him to have the present reprint made. 



It remains to be added that as the present reprint 

 approached completion a set of the three "fasciculi " was 

 found to exist amongst the ornithological tracts forming 

 part of the library of the late Hugh S. Strickland, recently 

 presented to the University of Cambridge by his widow. 



H. E. DRESSER, 



G Tenterden Street, London. 



Sept. 11, 1875. 



