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for their courteous permission to make several long quotations 

 from Sir J. E. Teunent's Ceylon, and from H. W. Bates' Naturalist 

 on the Eiver Amazons. 



Lastly, a remark about my Editors. Instead of being a 

 source of annoyance they have rendered me the greatest help. 



H. GADOW. 



CAMBRIDGE, December 19, 1900. 



