
PREFACE. 
THE completion of the present volume brings the 
Third Series of ‘Tun Ists’ 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 Fourth Series, which will be com- 
menced in January next. 
In thanking the many contributors to the pages 
of ‘Tue Isis’ for their support during my past 
term of office as Editor, | beg leave on behalf of 
Mr. Scuater and myself to solicit their further aid 
in maintaining the high character ‘THe Iprs’ has 
hitherto borne in advancing the science of Orni- 
thology. 
OSBERT SALVIN, 
Editor. 
Brooklands Avenue, Cambridge. 
October 1876. 

