PREFACE. 



It is with very great regret that we have to announce the 

 cessation of this journal as a separate puhhcation. 



Although the flow of literary contributions has been fully 

 maintained, and we have had regretfully to return several 

 interesting communications which would have served for a 

 New Year's number, the increased support from Subscribers 

 which, as we said at the beginning of the year, was necessary, 

 has not been forthcoming. 



This being so, and the main interest of the ' Zoologist ' 

 having for many yeais centred chiefly in the British avifauna, 

 we look with considerable satisfaction on the fact that Messrs. 

 Witberby & Co. have taken it over for amalgamation with 

 their publication 'British Birds,' which is, we understand, to 

 widen its scope so as to include the birds of the Western 

 Palaearctic Eegion generally. 



It is of course understood that only ornithological matter 

 will be required by the conjoint publication, and of this only 

 such as will deal with the birds of the area above-mentioned, 

 and we hope that the same loyal support will be accorded by 

 our observers to ' British Birds ' as has been tbe pride of this 

 old-established magazine. 



