CENTRAI 



PREFACE. 



The completion of the present volume brings the 

 Third Series of ' The Ibis ' to a close. Pressure of 

 other duties preventing my continuing the sole 

 charge of the Journal, Mr. P. L. Sclater has, with 

 the approval of a Meeting of the British Ornitho- 

 logists' Union held in May last, consented to join 

 m.e in editing a Eourth Series, which will be com- 

 menced in January next. 



In thanking the many contributors to the pages 

 of ' The Ibis ' for their support during my past 

 term of office as Editor, I beg leave on behalf of 

 Mr. Sclater and myself to solicit their further aid 

 in maintaining the high character * The Ibis ' has 

 hitherto borne in advancing the science of Orni- 

 thology. 



OSBERT SALVIN, 



Editor. 



Brooklands Avenue, Cambridge. 

 October 1876, 



