. "We took the earliest opportunity of warning our 

 subscribers that " Stray Feathees " could not reason- 

 ably be expected to be very regular in their appearance 

 or very uniform in their size, and it is therefore, per- 

 haps, unnecessary to apologize for this very stout treble 

 number ; still it behoves us to explain that the whole 

 of the rest of the Editor's N"otes on the Ornithology of 

 Sindh are now presented, en masse, in the present num- 

 ber instead of appearing as was originally intended in 

 four successive parts, because there seems just now a 

 prospect of attention being locally paid to the subject. 

 In the course of another six or eight months, any or all 

 of those now interested in the work, may have been 

 (and some certainly ivill be) called by duty elsewhere, 

 and it is therefore thought best to seize an opportunity 

 that may not recur for years and afford to local 

 observers, at once, such little aid as these papers may 



be able to furnish. 



A. 0. H. 



