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‘ndividuals. Of these the foremost on the list must be the names of M. Jules Bourcier,
of Paris, and Thomas Reeves, Esq., of Rio de Janeiro. Both these gentlemen have made
extensive collections of specimens, and had numerous drawings prepared for the express purpose
of publishing works on the subject, all of which with the utmost Deas have been 7 placed
at my disposal. To M. Bourcier, than whom no one possesses a more intimate aie
with this group of birds, I am likewise indebted for much valuable information, which has been
at all times rendered with the utmost willmgness and promptitude. My thanks are also due to
the Trustees and the Keepers of the Zoological Department of the British Museum ; to the
Director of the Museum of the Jardin des Plantes at Paris; to Dr. Peters, Director of the Royal
Zoological Museum of Berlin; to George Ure Skinner, Esq., long resident in Guatemala ; to
that intrepid traveller M. Warszewicz, now Director of the Botanic Garden at Cracow, who,
during his travels in South America, brought to light more new species of Humming-Birds than
any other explorer; to my friends Sir William Jardine, Bart.; W.C. L. Martin, Bsq.s9 DSC:
Kyton, Esq.,; Dr. Sclater; Alfred Newton, Esq.; M. Edouard Verreaux, of Paris; G. N.
Lawrence, Esq., of New York; and Dr. Baird, of Washington; to Edward Wilson, Esq., to
Sigismund Rucker, Esq., F. Taylor, Esq., of Liverpool; William Tucker, Esq., of Trinidad ;
and to 'T’. F. Erskine, Esq., for the readiness with which they have at all times favoured me with
both information and the loan of specimens. To Miss Loddiges and her brother Mr. Conrad
Loddiges, I am under considerable obligations for the facility of access they have always
afforded me to the very valuable collection formed by their lamented father. Nor must the
name of another valued friend—the late Prince Charles Lucien Bonaparte—be omitted from

the list of those who took great interest in the present work, he having at all times rendered

me that scientific assistance which his vast and varied talents so well enabled him to afford.

September 1, 1861.

 

       
 
   
   
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
  
  
    
    
  

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