TO
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
THE EARL OF DERBY,
PRESIDENT,
THE NOBLEMEN AND GENTLEMEN
FORMING
THE COUNCIL OF

THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.

My Lords and Gentlemen,

FAVOURED by your kind permission, tt 1s with feelings of mingled
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gratitude and pleasure, natural to one so long connected with the Society over which you
preside, that I dedicate to you this Work on “Tur Birps or Evropsz, and I have the

honour to subscribe myself,

My Lords and Gentlemen,

Your mast obedient and obliged Servant,

JOHN GOULD.