vi PEEFACE. 



sincerest thanks for having allowed my artist, Mr. Frohawk, in many instances to make 

 use of portions of the plates in that work as backgrounds, thereby enabling me to 

 reproduce the indigenous trees and plants at the same time as the birds. 



To enumerate by name all those from whom I met with, kindness in the islands 

 would be a well-nigh endless task ; but I must refer, in conclusion, to a few friends 

 in England whose untiring assistance has been of the most valuable description : to 

 Professor Newton (to whom I have the very great pleasure of dedicating this work), 

 to the Hon. Walter Eothschild, to Dr. Hans Gadow, to the late Mr. Osbert Salvin, 

 and to Mr. K. C. L. Perkins. 



S. B. WILSON. 



Heatherbank, Weybridge, 

 May 19th, 1899. 



