. The naturalist in La Plata . HHHHH K ?. WHITE-BANDED MOCKING-BIRD WITH ILLUSTRATIONS LONDON—CHAPMAN and HALL, Lb. 1892 [All rights reserved^] LONDON: FKINTED BY GILBERT AND BIVINGTON, LD., ST. JOHNS HOUSE, CLERKENWELL, //. Jotij^typtt PREFACE. The plan I have followed in this little work hasbeen to sift and arrange the facts I have gatheredconcerning the habits of the animals best knownto me, preserving those only, which, in my judg-ment, appeared worth recording. In some in-stances a variety of subjects have linked themselvestogether in my mind, and have been groupedunder one heading;

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. The naturalist in La Plata . HHHHH K ?. WHITE-BANDED MOCKING-BIRD WITH ILLUSTRATIONS LONDON—CHAPMAN and HALL, Lb. 1892 [All rights reserved^] LONDON: FKINTED BY GILBERT AND BIVINGTON, LD., ST. JOHNS HOUSE, CLERKENWELL, //. Jotij^typtt PREFACE. The plan I have followed in this little work hasbeen to sift and arrange the facts I have gatheredconcerning the habits of the animals best knownto me, preserving those only, which, in my judg-ment, appeared worth recording. In some in-stances a variety of subjects have linked themselvestogether in my mind, and have been groupedunder one heading; consequently the scope of thebook is not indicated by the list of contents : thiswant is, however, made good by an index at theend. It is seldom an easy matter to give a suitablename to a book of this description. I am con-scious that the one I have made choice of displaysa lack of originality ; also, that this kind of titlehas been used hitherto for works constructed moreor less on the plan of the famous Naturalist on theAmazon*. Afte

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