INTKODUCTORY CHAPTER, 



BY THE EDITOR, 



INCLUDING A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF THE AUTHOR 

 (TRANSLATED FROM THE SWEDISH). 



IN introducing to the public the following ornithological notes 

 by my late friend CHARLES JOHN ANDERSSON, I purpose, in the 

 first instance, to lay before my readers a short biographical 

 sketch of Mr. Andersson's career which appeared in a Swedish 

 periodical, the ' Sveriska Jagarforbundets nya Tidskrift ' for 

 1868, and for a translation of which I am indebted to my valued 

 friend L. Lloyd, Esq., of Gothenburgh. 



The details given in this sketch will enable the reader to judge 

 of the circumstances under which Mr. Andersson made his 

 ornithological observations, and will be followed by some remarks, 

 in the form of a preface, relating chiefly to the mode which I 

 have adopted in arranging the results of those observations as 

 contained in his MS. notes, for the purpose of publication in the 

 present volume. 



BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH. 



CHARLES JOHN ANDERSSON was born in Wermelandf in 1827, 

 was educated at the public high school in Wenersborg, and was 

 afterwards a student at the University of Lund for a single 

 term. In early life he evinced a great passion for the chase, 

 natural history, and travel, * * * * ; and, according to what he 

 himself relates, his aspirations were at an early period turned 

 towards the deserts of Africa. 



t A province of Sweden. 



a 2 



