"1Rov>itate0 ZooloQicae" 



IS A 



JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY IN CONNECTION WITR THE 



THING MUSEUM. 



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

 articles on mammals, reptiles, palaeontology, or other branches o1" 

 zoology. Descriptions of new species are almost entirely confined 

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

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

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

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

 forms an annual volume of from about, at least, 400 — 600 pages, 

 and appears in irregular 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., III., and IV. are now complete. They contain, 

 besides many articles on all subjects to wliich the journal is devoted 

 by Walter Eothschild, Ernst Hartert, and Karl Jordan, valuable 

 contributions to Mammalogy by Forsyth Major and Olufielu 

 Thomas ; to Ornithology by Osbert Salvin, Anton Reichenow, 

 O. T. Baron, O. Kleinschmidt, Count Berlepsch, C. W. Andrews, 

 E. C. Stuart Baker, and Eug. Simon ; a number of articles on 

 Reptiles by Albert Gunther ; on Entomology by Martin Jacoby, 

 J. Faust, W. F. Kirby, H. Grose-Smith, William Warren, Ernest 

 Olivier, Charles Rothschild, E. Fleutiaux, John W. Shiim', and 

 A. Kuwert; and on Palaeontology by C. W. Andrews. 



The volumes are profusely illustrated w itli liand- coloured, 

 chroniolithograj)hed, and ])lain plates and figures in the text. 



