PREFACE. 



THE object of the present List has been to give a complete 

 Catalogue of the species of the Families Capitonidee, or 

 Barbets, and Picidae, or Woodpeckers, exemplifying by 

 letters a, b, c, &c. the specimens contained in the Col- 

 lection of the British Museum, under the specific name 

 and synonyms to which they belong, indicating also the 

 locality and the source from whence each specimen has 

 been derived. 



J. E. GEAY. 



January 1808. 



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