THE^OSPREY. 



77 



THE OSPREY. 



All Illusliattd Maj^aziiie of Popular Uniitliology. 



Published Monthly, 



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Edited by Theodore Gill in collaboi-ation with Robert 

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Vol. IV 



JANUARY. 1000. 



Comments. 



THE NEW YEAR. 



Another year has passed and ^ve enter into a 

 new one with excellent prospects for the Ospkey_ 

 The niag'azine has appeared since the com- 

 mencement of the new volume quite or nearly 

 on time — the fifteenth of each month — and this 

 regularity, so far as we can foresee, will be ob- 



served for the future. We have been favored 

 with many contributions for succeeding- num- 

 bers and for these we are glad to express our 

 hearty thanks. We trust that these contribu- 

 tions will be the forerunners of others of equal 

 value. The success of the mag^azine must de- 

 pend on contributors as well as subscribers and 

 we hope that both will help us as much as lies 

 in their power. The number of stibscribers has 

 materially increa.sed since the present manage- 

 ment has assumed control but the expenses are 

 still greater than the income. Nevertheless we 

 will in any case continue it till the fifth volume 

 shall be completed. We hope and confidently 

 expect that before that time the magazine will 

 be on a good paying- basis. SureU' a monthh' 

 mag^azine devoted to ornithology should have a 

 place in the world. 



Two of the featttres presented in the introduc- 

 tion and postscript to the last volume are com- 

 menced in the present number. 



Dr. Stejneger has given the most prominent 

 and characteristic features of the Bird fauna of 

 the Hawaiian Islands in the form of a review of 

 the recently completed "Aves Hawaiienses: 

 The Birds of the Sandwich Islands" of Mr. 

 Scott B. Wilson. 



Mr. Bartsch has commenced his series of 

 articles on the Birds of the Road and noticed 

 those that he has actualh' seen in trips about 

 Washington during" the mcinths of December 

 and January. This article will be followed, we 

 hope, bj' others giving the experience of that 

 gentleman for each month of the year. 



