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IMPORTANT NOTICE. 



^ITH this part ends the publication of the HUMMING 

 Bird. In future, all my time will be exclusively 

 devoted to the preparation and publication of a Genera OF 

 Birds for which I have already accumulated a large quantity 

 of materials, and I hope that all my Colleagues, Travellers 

 Naturalists, all my friends. Proprietors, Directors and Curators 

 of public and private Museums, and all others interested in 

 Ornithology will help me in adding to my materials as many of 

 the Genera as they will be able to get, amongst those which I 

 do not possess, and of which I give a list in the present Part. 

 I wish to compare and study as many of them as possible, 

 and for this, I ask the help of all. 



Either loans, gifts, or exchanges of specimens will be 

 cordially accepted and acknowledged in my work. For those 

 who will be willing to give or to exchange for some of the 

 Genera, which I require, I shall repay them amply with some 

 good and rare species, which I have still by me ; or with some 

 copies of my works on Zoology, and others. 



I thank cordially all my friends, contributors, and sub- 

 scribers to the Humming Bird, who have had the welfare of 

 this Review at heart, and who have assisted in various ways 

 in promoting its circulation. 



For the convenience of intending purchasers I am willing 

 to supply, separately, the Travels of a Naturalist, Vol. I. ; 

 or the Genera of Humming Birds. A. B. 



HONORIFIC DISTINCTIONS. 



By decree promulgated in Diario de Goberno, dated 2nd 

 day of March, 1875, His Majesty the King of Portugal has 

 been pleased to nominate Mr. Adolphe Boucard, Cavalleiro 

 DA Antigua, Nobilissima e Esclarecido Ordem de Sao 

 Thiago, do merito scientico, literario e artistico. 



The Professors of the Paris Museum in their general 

 Assembly, held on the 19th of March, 1895, have unanimously 

 elected Mr. Adolphe Boucard, Naturalist, Corresponding 

 Member of the Paris Museum. 



