Excerpt from The Ibis, 1879, Vol. 3: A Quarterly Journal of Ornithology Judging from the recent announcements of new Bird-books, and the vigour with which others already started are continued, it would appear that the de pression now generally supposed to be everywhere prevalent has not affected our favourite Science. On the contrary, ornithological work increases apace; and, as will be seen from the pages of this year's volume, though some of our old contributors may have relaxed their efforts to assist us, others have come forward from nearly every part of the world. 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.