PREFACE. 
TN bringing this volume to an end, we are now starting on the last stage 
of the work, that is to say, that the next volume will end the series. 
Tliis volume contains 145 figures, the greatest number so far, and 609 
pages. It became difficult to know where to divide the Honey-eaters. I 
should have preferred them all in one volume, but this would have made it 
too cumbersome, so I decided that the genus Stomiopera should end it. 
Again, I wish to thank all those who have helped me by their contributions. 
It is only with the assistance of the Field Naturalists that the life history of 
any bird can be completed. 
GREGORY M. MATHEWS. 
Foulis Court, Fair Oars, Hants. 
December \ st, 1924. 
ERRATA. 
p. 228, line 2 from bottom, for Nesopardalotus quadraginthus quadraginthus 
read Nesopardalotus quadraginthus rex. 
p. 274, line 27, for palliceps read pallidiceps. 
p. 337, line 2 from bottom, for Acnathorhynchus read Acanthorhynchus. 
p. 403, line 3, for pyhrygius read phrygius. 
p. 415, line 5, for supercillosis read superciliosus. 
p. 451, line 29, for Meilphaga read Meliphaga. 
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