PREFACE. 



It is with great satisfaction that the Editor of ' The 

 Ibis' regards the vakiable aid, so freely rendered 

 him during the past year by Ornithologists in almost 

 every part of the world, as evincing the interest they 

 take in the welfare of the Journal he has the honour 

 to conduct. 



Amongst those to whom his gratitude for such 

 help is due, he must especially mention Mr. Osbert 

 Salvin, who, in the Editor's temporary absence from 

 England, very kindly undertook to bring out the 

 Number for July — a task which he is sure the 

 readers of ' The Ibis ' will agree with him in consi- 

 dering to have been most efficiently performed. 



A.N. 



Magdalene College, Cambridge. 

 September 1867. 



