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PREFACE. 



In concluding another volume of ' The Ibis ' the 

 Editors beg leave to thank the many contributors to 

 its pages for the support they have received. It only 

 remains for them to add that the course of pros- 

 perity that has attended this Journal for so long 

 shows no signs of change, and that the prospect 

 for the coming year seems as fair as the retrospect 

 of the past. 



O. S. 

 P. L. S. 



October 1878. 



