TO 
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE 
THE EARL OF DERBY, 
PRESIDENT, 
AND 
THE NOBLEMEN AND GENTLEMEN 
FORMING 
THE COUNCIL OF 
THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 
My Lords and Gentlemen, 
FAVOURED by your kind permission, tt ts with feelings of mingled 
gratitude and pleasure, natural to one so long connected with the Socrety over which you 
preside, that I dedicate to you ths Work on “Tue Birps oF Evroret, and I have the 
honour to subscribe myself, 
My Lords and Gentlemen, 
Your most obedient and obliged Servant, 
JOHN GOULD. 
