PREFACE. 
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nomenclature, so that the reader, with this publication in his hand, will 
understand exactly what are the colours indicated. 
Some of the objects described were collected in the Cape Colony; others 
in Kaffirl and, a district of country lying along the sea-coast to the eastward 
of the colony; others near Port Natal; but the majority on the belt of 
country which was explored by the expedition already mentioned, which 
was in breadth nearly 3 degrees, and in length 7j ; or, in other words, the 
country lying between 25° and 27° 58' east longitude, and 31° and 23° 28' 
south latitude. 
Considering that the Association contributed not merely the princi- 
pal but the greater part of the novelties, and that its members incurred 
great expense to acquire them, without any prospect of individual advantage, 
I feel it a duty to embrace this opportunity of not only recording that fact, but 
also the names of those, who, though residing in a distant part of the globe, 
are not indifferent to the promotion of discovery and the advancement of 
science. In doing justice to them, however, I must not fail, at the same 
time, to discharge a like duty to a resident of this country, who contributed 
in a greater proportion than any other individual to whatever success 
attended the exertions of the Association, — I allude to Mr. Jameson, of 
Liverpool, who spontaneously transmitted to the Society, through Mr. 
M'Queen, the sum of two hundred pounds, to be employed in furtherance 
of African discovery. 
The plates, as it will be observed, have been published in five divi- 
sions, viz., Mammalia, Aves, Reptilia, Pisces, and Invertebratse. Those 
of each division have been numbered independently, and the letterpress 
descriptions left unpaged, in order that they may be arranged according to 
the particular view of purchasers. An index to each division is given, so 
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