IV 
PREFACE. 
appears to him, that the whole number of animals in the 
Zoological Gardens might, with equal propriety, be enrolled in a 
British Fauna, with many that are now enumerated in it. 
For our plan of the arrangement of the Catalogue, and the 
rules we have followed in it, we refer our readers to the preface 
at the beginning of it. 
The cuts are all executed by Mr. Mark, engraver on wood, 
Wellington; and, with those exceptions noticed in the letter- 
press accompanying them, the drawings have been made from 
specimens in the author’s collection. 
The cut on the title-page represents a hybrid bird, between 
the Cock Pheasant and Grey Hen, in the author’s possession, 
killed near Merrington, Shropshire ; on which a paper, by him, 
was read before the Zoological Society, and published in the 
Proceedings for May 12, 1835. 
The brood, of which this bird was one, consisted of five. 
One fine specimen is in the possession of J. A. Lloyd, Esq. of 
Leaton Knolls ; three others, together with the old Grey Hen, 
fell victims to a farmer’s gun, and were consequently destined 
to the table. 
Eyton, March 1, 1836. 
