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EDITOR'S PREFACE. 



late Charles John Anderssou, the well 

 known traveller in Africa, and author of " Lako 

 Ngami" and " The Okovango River," ended his days 

 miserably, as so many other enterprising men have 

 done before him, in the wilds of that continent, 

 leaving behind him voluminous papers and notes, 

 which are now in my possession. Amongst the 

 rest, are materials for his contemplated great illumi- 

 nated work, " The Ave Fauna of Southern Africa." 

 of which an abstract has recently been published 

 by his talented friend, Mr. John Henry Gurney, 

 under the title of the " Birds of Damaraland, etc.," 

 and as this valuable work has been very favourably 

 received, and poor Andersson, in consequence, 

 once more brought to the remembrance of his 

 numerous friends both in England and Sweden, 1 

 am induced to give publicity to the present volume, 



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