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JOUHNAL OF ZOOLOGY IN COXXECTION JFITE TEE 



TRIXG MUSEVM. 



It contains chiefly articles on insects and birds, but also many- 

 articles on mammals, reptiles, palaeontology, or other branches of 

 zoology. Descriptions of new species are almost entirely confined 

 to those of which the types belong to the Triug Museum. Articles 

 on general subjects are, for the most part, founded on work connected 

 with the Tring collection. The articles are mostly Avritten in English, 

 but such in French, German, or Latin are also admitted. The journal 

 forms an annual volume of from about, at least, iOO — 600 pages, 

 and appears in irreyuUir parts and at irregular intervals during the 

 year. It contains yearly, in addition to the letterpress, at least ten 

 to fifteen plates, coloured or plain. 



Volumes I., II., and III. are now complete. Tliey contain, 

 bi^sides many articles on all subjects to Avhich tlie journal is devoted 

 by Walter Rothschild, Ernst Hartert, and Karl Jordax, valuable 

 contributions to Mammalogy by Forsyth Ma.jor and Oldfield 

 Thomas ; to Ornithology by Osbert Salvix, Anton Reichenow, 

 Count Berlepsch, C. W. Andrews, E. C. Stuart Baker, and Eug. 

 Simon ; a number of articles on Reptiles by Albert Gijnther ; on 

 Entomology by Martin Jacoby, J. Faust, W. F. Kirby, H. Grose 

 Smith, William Warren, Ernest Olivier, Charles Rothschild, 

 John W. Shipi', and A. Kuwert; and on Palaeontology by C. W. 

 Andrews. 



The volumes are profusely illustrated with luiud - coloured, 

 chromolithographed, and j)lain plates and figures in the text. 



