PREFACE. 
In concluding another volume of ‘The Ibis’ the 
Editors beg leave to thank the many contributors to 
its pages for the support they have received. It only 
remains for them to add that the course of pros¬ 
perity that has attended this Journal for so long 
shows no signs of change, and that the prospect 
for the coming year seems as fair as the retrospect 
of the past. 
O. S. 
P. L. S. 
October 1878, 
