pV’U 
PREFACE. 
The completion of the present volume brings the 
Third Series of 6 The Ibis ’ to a close. Pressure of 
other duties preventing my continuing the sole 
charge of the Journal, Mr. P. L. Sclater has, with 
the approval of a Meeting of the British Ornitho¬ 
logists’ Union held in May last, consented to join 
me in editing a Pourth Series, which will he com¬ 
menced in January next. 
In thanking the many contributors to the pages 
of ‘The Ibis’ for their support during my past 
term of office as Editor, I beg leave on behalf of 
Mr. Sclater and myself to solicit their further aid 
in maintaining the high character ‘The Ibis’ has 
hitherto borne in advancing the science of Orni¬ 
thology. 
OSBEBT SALVIN, 
Editor. 
Brooklands Avenue, Cambridge. 
Qctober 1876. 
