Excerpt from The Ibis, 1872, Vol. 2: A Quarterly Journal of Ornithology It is also satisfactory to observe that the nature of some of the work now in progress gives great hopes that the Classification of birds will ere long be placed upon a sounder basis. The whole organization of birds, upon a knowledge of which alone correct con elusions can be arrived at, is now being investigated in a manner that bids fair to remove the reproach of shallowness in questions of classification under which our science has not unjustly laboured. Having said thus much, we have only to thank our many friends for their contributions, and for material assistance received during our editorship of the present volume. 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.