PREFACE. 



In launching forth the ' Ornithological Miscellany ' it is a 

 source of much regret that I am unable to say how many 

 Numbers will be published, or when they are likely to appear ; 

 nor can I even tell to which departments of ornithology, fossil 

 or recent, they may be devoted. My single idea, as a working 

 ornithologist, is to try and advance that science in any way 

 possible. I love it much, and am unable to confine my view 

 exclusively to any one of the zoogeographical regions now 

 adopted by zoologists, and first established by Dr. Sclater. 



Number I. relates exclusively to the ornis of New 

 Zealand, on account of the recent discovery there of a new 

 species of Apteryx. All the Illustrations have been executed 

 by Mr. Keulemans — the birds from specimens set up by 

 Mr. Swaysland, in my own collection, received by me direct 

 from New Zealand. 



