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P R E F A C E .
1ITY readers will naturally ask why I have delayed
writing this hook for six years after my return;
and I feel hound to give them full satisfaction on this
point.
When I reached England in the spring of 1862, I found
myself surrounded by a room full of packing-cases, containing
the collections that I had from time to time sent
home for my private use. These comprised nearly three
thousand bird-skins, of ahout a thousand species ; and at
least twenty thousand beetles and butterflies, of ahout
seven thousand species; besides some quadrupeds and
land-shells. A large proportion of these I had not seen
for years; and in my then weak state of health, the
unpacking, sorting, and arranging of such a mass of
specimens occupied a long time.