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PREFACE. 
r ^ 'HIS little work will, I trust, be found useful as a Sketch-book of the Birds of 
Great Britain. Its limits have not allowed of my attempting a full history 
of the species, and I have but added a few notes as a running commentary on the 
little pictures which Messrs. A. F. and C. Lydon have provided. 
The Systematic Index is, I believe, the most complete record of the birds in the 
‘British List’ yet published. It contains the two latest additions to the British 
Avifauna, Herbivocula scliwarzi and Munia atricapilla, and brings the total number 
of species to 445. 
R. BOYVDLER SHARPE 
Chiswick, 
October 31 st, 189b. 
