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Mr. Frank E. Beddard, Prosector to the Zoological Society, has kindly undertaken the same 
portion of the work which he so ably executed in my ‘ Monograph of the Meropidse,’ and to him I am 
therefore indebted for the notes on the Anatomy &c. of the Coraciidee in the Introduction. 
The present will probably be the last Monograph I shall undertake; but I hope to publish 
shortly a ‘ Supplement to the Birds of Europe,’ of which a considerable portion is already written 
and for which nearly forty Plates have been executed. 
Topclyffe Grange, Farnborougli, Kent. 
SOth September, 1893. 
H. E. DEESSER. 
