THE BIRDS OF JAMAICA. BY PHILIP HENRY GOSSE; ASSISTED BY RICHARD HILL, ESQ., OF SPANISH-TOWN. LONDON: JOHN VAN VOORST, PATERNOSTER ROW. M.DCCC.XLVII. PREFACE. WHITE of Selbourne has somewhere expressed the gratification which would be afforded to him by a sight of the hirundina. S tors. nave escaped the researches both of himself and his friends, especially among the migrant visiThe valuable assistance, however, of a resident Ornithologist, whose notes pervade this volume, and to whom he would here express his deep gratitude, have greatly diminished the omissions which must otherwise have been unavoidable. Perhaps a word of apology may be thought needful for the minuteness with which the author has |
