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A Quarterly Journal of Ornithology. 
ANNOUNCEMENT FOR 1879. 
With the beginning of Volume III the size of the Bulletin was enlarged from twenty- 
four to forty-eight pages in each issue, and the price raised to $ 2.00. The hope then ex- 
pressed that it would be possible to still further increase the size of the Magazine without 
additional cost to subscribers has been fully realized, the average number of pages per 
number in Volume III being fifty-four. The gradual increase of our subscription-list, to- 
gether with the large amount of matter offered for publication, shows plainly that the Bul- 
letin meets a long-felt want, and leads us to believe that its permanence as an Ornitho- 
logical Magazine is assured. The favor with which it has thus far been received leads us 
to hope that its friends will relax no effort in its behalf, and that through increase of patron- 
age it will be possible to still further extend its size and usefulness. 
It will be continued under the same editorial management as heretofore, and the aim will 
be to keep it at such a standard of excellence as to make it indispensable not only to every 
working ornithologist, but to every one interested in the progress of American Ornithology. 
A special feature of the Bulletin will be, as heretofore, a comprehensive resume of the 
current literature relating to North American Ornithology. 
Communications to previous volumes have been received from no less than fifty con- 
tributors, embracing all the le'ading authorities (of this country) on American Ornithology. 
With such ample literary support, the magazine cannot fail to be worthy of the most liberal 
patronage. 
In order to assist in defraying the expenses of publication, advertising sheets will be 
issued with each number, relating mainly to Natural History, and especially to Ornithology. 
The attention of dealers in specimens of Natural History and collectors’ and taxidermists’ 
materials, and of publishers of works relating to Natural History, is hence called to the 
Bulletin as a desirable advertising medium. 
TERMS. — Subscription, $ 2.00 a year (including postage), strictly in advance ; single 
numbers, 50 cents. The price of Volumes I and II has been raised to $ 2.00 each. * 
Subscriptions should be forwarded to Mr. RUTHVEN DEANE, Cambridge, Mass. 
Advertising Rates. — First insertion, 30 cents a line (Bourgeois), or $ 12.00 per page ; 
$6.50 per half-page. A discount of twenty-five per cent will be made for each subsequent 
insertion. 
Communications intended for publication, as well as advertisements, should be sent 
to Mr. J. A. Allen, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Mass. 
