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  PEE 
  FACE. 
  

  

  W. 
  Tait, 
  Inverurie, 
  and 
  his 
  son, 
  Mr. 
  Thomas 
  Tait 
  ; 
  

   Mr. 
  James 
  Mackie, 
  Burnharvie 
  ; 
  Mr. 
  James 
  

   Elphinstone, 
  M.A„, 
  King-Edward; 
  and 
  Mr. 
  W. 
  

   Pirie, 
  Aberdeen. 
  Throughout 
  the 
  body 
  of 
  the 
  work 
  

   the 
  names 
  of 
  other 
  gentlemen 
  appear 
  to 
  whom 
  the 
  

   author 
  is 
  indebted. 
  

  

  The 
  services 
  of 
  the 
  following 
  gentlemen, 
  now 
  no 
  

   more, 
  are 
  gratefully 
  recorded: 
  — 
  Dr. 
  Francis 
  Day, 
  of 
  

   Cheltenham, 
  author 
  of 
  the 
  History 
  of 
  the 
  Fishes 
  of 
  

   Great 
  Britain 
  and 
  Ireland 
  ; 
  Stewart 
  Burnett, 
  Esq., 
  

   Kemnay, 
  than 
  whom 
  no 
  one 
  knew 
  the 
  Fauna 
  of 
  our 
  

   district 
  better 
  ; 
  and 
  Mr. 
  Thomas 
  S. 
  Tait, 
  Inverurie. 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  arrangement 
  and 
  nomenclature 
  the 
  authors 
  

   followed 
  have 
  been 
  — 
  as 
  to 
  Mammalia, 
  Bell's 
  1st 
  

   Edition 
  ; 
  as 
  to 
  Ornithology, 
  the 
  List 
  of 
  the 
  British 
  

   Ornithologists' 
  Union 
  ; 
  and 
  as 
  to 
  Fishes, 
  Dr. 
  Day. 
  

  

  GEORGE 
  SIM. 
  

  

  Aberdeen, 
  October, 
  1903. 
  

  

  