PREFACE. 
It having been decided to bring the publication of the “ Midland 
Naturalist ” to a close with the completion of this, the sixteenth 
volume, it only remains for the Editors to express their regret that 
a magazine devoted especially to the Natural History of the 
Midland Counties should have failed to find sufficient support to 
justify its longer continuance. The Editors take this opportunity 
of expressing their grateful thanks to their many fellow-helpers, 
without whose valuable assistance the magazine would have had 
a much shorter life. 
Birmingham, December, 1893. 
