<b>Old and classic Magazine on Birds</b><br /><br />With this month&rsquo;s issue I make my first bow to the Ornithologists and Oologists of America. I refrained from so doing in the first issue as I did not know at the time how my little journal would be received. But, as I have had so many encouraging words from my friends in every part of North America, I will now promise henceforth to give you the most reliable and best reading matter obtainable, and shall try my utmost to make this magazine a great help in the advancement of that most delightful branch of natural history&mdash;Ornithology and Oology. Trusting that my friends will be as well pleased with this and the following numbers, as with the first, I remain,