Excerpt from The Ibis, 1894, Vol. 6: A Quarterly Journal of Ornithology IT was not without some misgivings, both for public and private reasons, as I stated in 1889, that I con sented, at the earnest request of some of my most valued friends, to undertake the sole Editorship of the Sixth Series of 'the Ibis.' I am now, it need hardly be said, much pleased to have brought the final volume of the series to a conclusion, which I may be pardoned in designating as not unsuccessful. The thirty-sixth volume of our Journal is not quite so bulky as the thirty-fifth, but contains the same number of plates, and many articles, I think, of equal interest. In undertaking a share in the Editorship of the Seventh Series, as I have now, perhaps somewhat rashly, promised to do, it is a great satisfaction to me that I shall have the assistance of my former colleague, Mr. Howard Saunders. Without his valuable aid I could not have ventured to incur such a serious responsibility. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.