R E F A CE. 



■^ H E Britilli Public, never deficient in encouraging works 

 which faithfuUy repreient luch produdions of nature as 

 have not been leen or pubHflicd before, is here offered a Volume 

 of Animals never delcribed and drawn, which make part of the 

 capital Concertions of j'>Iarmaduke Tunstall, Efq; and feveral 

 other Gentlemen, among whom I have the pleafure to mention 

 MefTrs. Lee of Hammerfmith, Yeats of Margaret Street, and 

 Moon of Hvde-Park. Some other of the Animals reprefented 

 were drawn after Specimens found in that great National Repofi- 

 tory the British Museum, and in the fme Colleélion belonging to 

 the Royal Society. Several plates are copied from the elegant 

 Drawings, generoufly communicated to mc by Gideon Loten 

 Efq; and originally finiflied under his own inipecffion from living 

 fubjedfs, during his refidenceinthelflands of Java and Ceylon, of 

 the latter of which he has been Governor for a confiderable time -. 



I take this method thankfully to acknowledge the great obli- 

 gations conferred on me by the abovementioned Gentlemen, in 

 afTiffing me generoufly by the communication of their fine and 

 curious Specimens and Drawings. 



Gratitude likewife prompts me to mention the great and valu- 

 able afTiffance I received from Tho^.tas Pennant Efq; of Down- 

 ing in Flintlliire, and Dr. John Reinhold Forster, both 

 Gentlemen well knowii in the literary world by their learned and 

 ingenious publications. For the Defcriptions of all the hifedfs, 

 I arn indebted to Mr. Yeats, who is pofTefled of a valuable and 

 curious Collecftion of them, well deferving of being publiflied for 

 the inllrudlion of the ConnoifTcurs in this entertaining branch of 

 Natural liiflory. 



I can fay nothing my f elf on the Execution and Colouring of the 

 Plates, but leave it entirely to the imi)artial Public to judge of 

 their merit, and to encourage the artiif accordingly ; humbly 

 hoping that even my feeble efforts to pleafe the Public by my 

 Indufb-y, together with the Novelty of the Animals reprefented, 

 will prove acceptable to m)' generous Patrons. 



Los no., May 9th.. 776. PETER BROWN. 



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• A CeriHcnte in Mr. Loten's own hnnd-writing, declaring tliefe Plates faithful Copies ofhis valu-ih'e 

 rrawnigf, ,s in the liamls ot Mr. PtNj a m i n Wh he, f k«-ilreet, fur the Infcedion of fuch l'erfoni 

 w ho Ihuul.l l.ke to be convinceil oJ their Authciuieity, 



