SUPPLEMENTARY PREFACE. 



FEW words of explanation are due from me to 

 our readers to account for the anomaly of a 

 work whose cover bears the name of two 

 authors being written by only one of these. 



A work like this, however, can only (if it is 

 to form a consistent whole) be actually written 

 by one person, and it became necessary, therefore, to 

 divide the work involved in the production of the book 

 in some other way than by assigning the preparation 

 of half the text to one author and of the other half to 

 the other. 



Two quite distinct and equally troublesome under- 

 takings were included in the preparation of The Game 

 Birds — the one the compilation of the text; the other 

 the superintendence of the preparation of the enormous 

 number of plates required. Mr. Hume desired to write 

 the text, and the humbler, though perhaps not much less 

 laborious, task fell to my share. 



I have performed my portion of the work to the very 

 best of my abilities, and yet personally feel almost as if 

 I were sailing under false colors in appearing before the 

 world as one of the authors of this book ; but I allow 

 my name to appear as such, partly because Mr. Hume 

 strongly wishes it, partly because I do believe that as 

 Mr. Hume says this work, which has been for years 

 called for, would never have appeared had I not pro- 

 ceeded to England, and arranged for the preparation of 

 the plates, and partly because with the explanation thus 

 afforded no one can justly misconstrue my action. 



C. H. T. MARSHALL. 



