INTRODUCTION. 



IN this third volume, the Carinatce are continued from the 

 Psittaciformcs to the end of the family Pycno-notidae of the Order 

 Passer i formes, the contents thus exactly corresponding to those of 

 Volumes II. and III. of Dr. Bowdler Sharpe's 'Hand-list of the 

 Genera and Species of Birds.' 



The total number of species included is 907, and the number of 

 eggs catalogued 8,474, as shown in the following table : 



CARINAT2E. 



Total 



907 



8,474 



M;,y 30, 



SAVILE G. REID. 



