

PREFACE. 



with some account of. the ornamental species, such as the 

 Golden, Silver, and Amherst pheasants, and of their manage- 

 ment in aviaries. 



Of the admirable engravings which illustrate the volume 

 I may remark, in the words of Izaak Walton, " Next let me 

 add this, that he that likes not the book should like the 

 excellent pictures .... which I may take a liberty 

 to commend, because they concern not myself/' 



In the preparation of this, the fifth, edition in my ninety- 

 fifth year, I have had necessarily to avail myself of the 

 assistance of others. The chapter on Diseases has been revised 

 and brought up to date by Dr. H. Hammond Smith, who, 

 when failing eyesight compelled me to relinquish pathological 

 research a few years ago, ably filled the breach. His 

 contributions to our knowledge of the subject, most valuable 

 in themselves, he has freely and generously placed at my 

 disposal. I am also greatly indebted to Mr. J. E. Harting 

 for his kind assistance in revising the proof sheets, for 

 which his intimate acquaintance with ornithology renders 

 him specially qualified. 



W. B. TEGETMEIER. 



