PREFACE. 
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W. J. Hooker, that among the onvirandra which I 
brought oyer there has recently been found a second 
species, the Ouvirandra Bernieriana , bearing deli¬ 
cately rose-coloured flowers. This new species Sir 
W. J. Hooker has described and figured recently in 
the “ Botanical Magazine.” 
The map is reduced from the outline of the late 
Commodore Owen’s survey. 
I am indebted to photography for the chief part of 
the illustrations of the volume. The different portraits, 
some of which exhibit remarkable heads, are all from 
photographs taken in the country. Several of the 
views, as well as the representations of a number of 
trees and plants, were obtained by the same means, 
or from sketches made, with one or two exceptions, 
while the objects were before me. The ouvirandra 
was drawn from a plant brought to this country; 
the engraving of the ring-tailed lemur is from a 
drawing by Wolf of a specimen in the Zoological 
Gardens; and I beg to return my sincere thanks to 
the proprietors of “Knight’s Museum of Animated 
Nature ” for the use of three illustrations of subjects 
of natural history. 
In my remarks on the native language, I have 
made use of the grammars of Messrs. Baker and 
Griffiths, but more especially of a valuable paper on 
the language, kindly furnished for me some years 
ago by the late Rev. J. J. Freeman. 
