PREFACE. 
THE completion of the present volume imposes on 
its Editor the pleasing duty of thanking the many 
friends who, by their contributions or suggestions, have 
so ably helped him to the performance of the task he 
had undertaken. 
The contents speak for themselves; but the Kditor 
cannot omit expressing his satisfaction that im quality 
they are not inferior to those of any volume which 
appeared during the long management of his lamented 
and experienced predecessor. ‘The papers by Captain 
Feilden, “On the Mammalia of North Greenland and 
Grinnell Land,” and by Mr. Warren, ‘On the Birds 
of the Moy Estuary,’ may, without disparagement of 
any others, be especially cited as furnishing valuable 
information not before published. 
As in most former years, Ornithology continues to 
fill the greatest number of pages; but the Editor, who 
certainly cannot be accused of indifference to its great 
fascination, would yet remind his correspondents that 
for this journal justly to maintain its title of ‘THE 
Zoouoetst,’ many other groups of animals deserve 
