PREFACE. 



torial representations of their appearance, their proper names, and 

 the districts in which they are to be found. So far as we have 

 been able to do so, the Colonial, Boer, and Native terms for most of 

 the subjects referred to in the volume are also given. 



We therefore beg leave to hope that the present work will be of 

 value to the Sportsman, as it may, in some instances, be acceptable 

 to the literature of Zoology. 



Our thanks are specially due to Dr. P. L. Sclater, F.R.S., 

 Secretary of the Zoological Society, for the interest he has taken in 

 the .work, and for assistance rendered, as also to Dr. A. Giinther, 

 F.R.S., Mr. Oldfield Thomas, F.Z.S., and Dr. R. Bowdler Sharpe, 

 M.A., F.L.S., of the Natural History Section of the British Museum; 

 and we should be ungrateful were we not to acknowledge the 

 services of Miss Hilda Robinson, whose faithful delineation of the 

 whole of the antelopes and most of the game birds, will, we trust, 

 be appreciated by our readers themselves. We are indebted for 

 portraits of some of the Francolins and Wild Duck to Sir A. Smith's 

 " Zoology of South Africa." 



THE AUTHORS. 



LONDON : 



September^ i8g2. 



