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EDITOR’S PREFACE. 
mHE late Charles John Andersson, the well 
known traveller in Africa, and author of cc Lake 
JNgami 55 and “ The Okovango River/ 5 ended his days 
miserably, as so many other enterprising men have 
done before him, in the wilds of that continent, 
leaving behind him voluminous papers and notes, 
which are now in my possession. Amongst the 
rest, are materials for his contemplated great illumi¬ 
nated work, “ The Ave Fauna of Southern Africa. 55 
of which an abstract has recently been published 
by his talented friend, Mr. John Henry Gurney, 
under the title of the “ Birds of Damaraland, &c.,’ 5 
and as this valuable work has been very favourably 
received, and poor Andersson, in consequence, 
once more brought to the remembrance of his 
numerous friends both in England and Sweden, I 
am induced to give publicity to the present volume, 
