PREFACE. 
This ‘ Guide ’ does not profess to give more than a 
classified list of the birds contained in the twelve 
cases forming the Manor-House Collection, with 
short explanatory notes for the information of 
visitors. 
The woodcuts, for the most part, are borrowed from 
Sir Walter Bailer’s ‘ Birds of New Zealand,’ where 
full descriptions and biographies will be found of all 
the species represented in this Collection. 
Eio-ht of these cases were on view in the New- 
Zealand Court at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition, 
1886 . The four cases since added contain many of 
the rarer species of New-Zealand birds; and the 
Collection, as a whole, may be regarded as a tolerably 
complete exemplification of a remarkably inteiesting 
Avifauna, many of the genera and most of the species 
being endemic or strictly confined to New Zealand 
and the neighbouring islands. 
