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•Ix the following pages I have endeavored to describe 

 the incidents of a trip to those comparatively little-known 

 islands, the Magdalexs, with a view to the study of their 

 Ornithology. 



I have often thought that if collectors would 2five a 

 summary of the results of their expeditions, naturalists 

 would soon be able to estimate the geographical range of 

 many species which at present we know^ very little about. 



In Part Second I have given a list of the species, with 

 notes, that were taken or observed. 



Several of the specimens differed in a marked manner 

 from their usual coloration; but while giving the points 

 of difference in the notes reo^ardinei: them, I have felt that 

 it would be too great a risk to describe them as varieties, 

 as of late "ears more than half of the " new birds " have 

 hardly received their names before they have sunk into 

 synonymes, thus greatly impeding science. 



