PREFACE. 
guide to that magnificent collection, and enable him to attain a tolerably 
comprehensive view of the Birds therein placed. 
As the work is not of a scientific character, the technical descriptions 
of the structure have been intentionally omitted. The reader will, 
however, find cuch information in my larger “ Illustrated Natural History, 5 ’ 
to which he is referred for further descriptions and a much more com- 
prehensive view of Birds. 
IjONDOIT, 
October . 1861. 
