INTRODUCTION. 



In this third volume, the Carinatce are continued from the 

 Fsitfaciformes to the end of the family Pyenonotidce of the Order 

 Passeriformes, the contents thus exactly corresponding to those of 

 Volumes II. and III. of Dr. Bowdler Sharpe's ' Hand-list of the 

 Genera and Species of Birds.' 



The total numher of species included is 907, and the numher of 

 eggs catalogued 8,474, as shown in the following table : — 



Order. 

 Psittaciformes . . . 

 Coraeiiformes .... 



Trogones 



Coccyges 



Scansores \ 



Piciformes 



Eurylaemiformes . 



Menuriformes 



Passeriformes 



Total .... 907 



8,474 



May 30, 1903. 



SAVILE G. EEID. 



