THE IBIS, 



A*MAGAZINE OF CxENERAL ORNITHOLOGY. 



EDITED BY 



PHILIP LUTLEY SCLATER. M.A., Ph.D., F.R.S., 



SECRETARY OF THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON, ETC. 



Vol. I. 1859. 490 pp. 15 Plates (out of print). 



II. 1860. 438 pp. 15 Plates, price ^l 6s. 



III. 1861. 430 pp. 12 Plates, price ^"I 6s. 



IV. 1862. 404 pp. 13 Plates, price £1 6s. 

 V. 1863. 498 pp. 13 Plates, price £1 6s. 



VI. 1864. 440 pp. and a General Index, 10 Plates, price .^1 6*. 



The First Series of this periodical is now finished, in Six Volumes. Purchasers wishing to 

 complete their sets are requested to apply to the Publishers, 

 Messrs. Triibner and Co., 60 Paternoster Row, London, E.G. 



NEW SERIES OF THE IBIS. 

 Annual Subscription, payable before 31st March, .^1 1*. 



THE IBIS, 



A QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF ORNITHOLOGY. 



EDITED BY 



ALFRED NEWTON, M.A., 



tATB FELLOW OP MAODALENE COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, F.L.S., F.Z.S., ETC. 



The First Series of ' The Ibis ' having been completed, a new one was commenced last year, 

 and the volume for 1865 (the first of the New Series) contains 666 pages of letter-press, and 

 is illustrated by 11 plates, 10 of which are from Mr. Wolf's pencil. Price ^1 6s. 



Communications may be addressed to the Editor, Axfhed Newton, Esq., Magdalene 

 College, Cambridge. Books for Review, Subscriptions, Advertisements, &c., to the 

 Publisher, 



John Van Voorst, 1, Paternoster Row, London, E.G. 



Single Numbers will be charged 6s. each. 



BONES OE THE DODO EROM MAURITIUS. 



Mr. J. C. STEVENS has received instructions to sell by Auction, at his Great Room, 38 

 King Street, Govent Garden, London, on Tuesday, the 13th of March, 1866, at Two o'Glock, 

 a collection of Bones of the wonderful extinct Bird DIDUS INEPTUS, lately discovered in the 

 Island of Mauritius. 



The collection contains Eight series of Bones, more or less complete ; and by far the 

 greater number have been hitherto absolutely unknown to Naturalists. They will be arranged 

 in lots, for the convenience of Purchasers ; and details may be had on application to the 

 Auctioneer, by whom instructions from Directors of Foreign Museums, or other gentlemen 

 who cannot attend the sale, will be faithfully attended to. 



The bones will be on view the day before and the morning of the sale. 



Illustrated by Ten Coloured and Eight Tinted Plates, royal 8vo, price £1 lis. 6rf., 

 Part I. (containing Accipitres) of 



OOTHECA WOLLEYANA: 



AN ILLUSTRATED AND DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE 



OF THE COLLECTION OF BIEDS' EGGS FORMED BY 



THE LATE JOHN WOLLEY, JuN., M.A., F.Z.S. 



Edited from the original notes 



By ALFRED NEWTON, M.A., F.L.S. 



