PREFACE.
The name of my colleague, Mr. Ogilvie-Grant, is now so well known as an authority on the Game-Birds that very few remarks are necessary to introduce him to my readers. The work is founded on his volume of the "Catalogue of Birds in the British Museum," where the student will find detailed the material, on which he has grounded the present monographic review. The aim of the Author has been to provide such a "Hand-book" as may be useful to sportsmen in every part of the world, and the present volume will prove of service to travellers in Africa as it gives a diagnosis, whereby every species of Francolin, known up to the present time, may be distinguished.
The second volume will deal with the Pheasants, American Partridges, Megapodes, Curassows, and Hemipodes, in the same concise manner, and will, I believe, be found of equal service to the sportsman and naturalist.
R. BOWDLER SHARPE.
