Excerpt from The Ibis, 1905, Vol. 5: A Quarterly Journal of Ornithology The Editors regret the slight delay that has taken place in the issue of the final number of this Journal for the present year, owing to their absence in South Africa at the Meetings of the British Asso ciation for the Advancement of Science. Had not Mr. Howard Saunders kindly proffered his welcome assistance, which was gratefully accepted, the delay might have been still more serious, as the Editors could not return to England before October 6th. 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.