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 took the earlicst opportunity of warning our subscribers that “" could not reasonably be expected to be very regular in their appearance or very uniform in their size, and it is therefore, perhaps, unnecessary to apologize for this very stout treble number; still it believes us to explain that the whole of the rest of the Editor's Notes on the Ornithology of Sindh are now presented, en masse, in the present number instead of appearing as was originally intended in four successive parts, because there seems just now a prospect of attention being locally paid to the subject. In the course of another six or eight months, any or all of those now interested in the work, may have been (and some certainly will be) called by duty elsewhere, and it is therefore thought best to seize an opportunity that may not recur for years and afford to local observers, at once, such little aid as these papers may be able to furnish. A. O. H.