iv PREFACE. 
account the Editor is always glad to receive communications, 
however trivial they may perhaps appear to the contributor. 
As a medium for the discussion of questions generally 
interesting to naturalists, ‘The Zoologist’ is especially useful ; 
for coming as it does to the hands of so many practical 
out-door observers, the author of an enquiry may be very 
speedily supplied with facts. 
But whether the object of a contributor be to seek 
information, or to impart it, the Editor trusts that in the 
forthcoming year he may be as favoured with communications 
from all sides as he has been in the past. 

