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My husband, ]\Ir. F. V. McConnell, who ?pent some yoars in 

 British Guiana, was deeply intercsled in ornithology, and nia(h3 

 a fairly complete collection of the birds of the country. He also 

 made two long excursions into the interior of the Colony, on both 

 occasions visiting the far-famed Mountain Rorainia. For some 

 time previous to his death, he, with the assistance of Mr. Charles 

 C^hubb, of the Zoological Department of the British Museum, had 

 been engaged on a catalogue of his collection. Since his death 

 in 1914, wishing, in memory of my husband, to have some record 

 of his work, I decided, instead of simply com])leting the cata- 

 logue, to ask Mr. Chubb to desciibe all tlie known birds of 

 British Guiana, based chiefly on this collection. 



I trust this book will prove useful to other workers in the 

 same branch of natural history. The details of my hushaud's 

 travels, with photographs of some of the [)laccs visited, which 

 1 have added, may perhap.s give it a wider interest. 



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