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ETeryone who is familiar with the Zoological Society's Library must be aware of 

 the great courtesy and ability of its Librarian, Mr. Waterhouse. To him, and also to 

 his excellent assistant, Mr. Doubleday, we feel specially indebted for Taluable assistance 

 most readily afforded — assistance without which we should have found the business of 

 verifying Count Salvadori's bibliography a task altogether beyond our strength. Assisted 

 as we have been, we venture to hope that our modest efforts may not be found devoid 

 of utility by ornithologists — especially on account of the types and first representations 

 of species it contains. But the skilful pencil of our artist, Mr. J. G. Keulemans, and 

 the information as to the habits and geographical relations of the birds described which 

 we have been able to obtain, will, we trust, render our work one not unwelcome to 

 the general reader who loves the beauties of Nature and feels the charms and attractions 

 of Bird Life. 



We have had carefully prepared, by Messrs. George Philip and Son, special Maps to show 

 the distribution of the family LoE.iiD.aj and of all its component genera, together with a Map 

 of the islands between Celebes and New Guinea, on a scale which we believe is not to be met 

 with in any English atlas. 



