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White-capped Tanager possesses in a far greater degree 

 than any other bird I have kept. He appears to realise 

 that for him to attack, or retaliate on, a smaller com- 

 panion wonld be an act unworthy of his race, and the 

 half-amnsed, half-digniiied manner with which he 

 meets unwarranted familiarities always commands my 

 admiration and respect. Quite a strong attachment 

 has grown up between a tin}^ Sugar Bird and himself, 

 and the pranks and tricks the little one plays him 

 would long ago have ended disastrously had S. 

 ieiicocep/ia/ us been less nobly moulded. "Royal" has 

 he been named, and Royal indeed is his nature. 

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Our Exhibiting Members may be interested to 

 learn that although the bird has only been exhibited 

 at the great London Shows he has never once failed to 

 secure a prize, though he has not always been able to 

 do himself justice. On one occasion he was awarded 

 the Club's Silver Medal for the best foreign bird in the 

 Show. 



an aviarv> in nDat)eira. 



By E. HoPKiNSON, M.B., D.vS.O. 



0N my way out from England^*' I spent a few hours 

 at Madeira, when I had the pleasure of visiting 

 Mrs. Reid's beautiful " Quinta," a country- 

 house above Funchal, and seeing the wonder- 

 ful collection of birds she has there. 



I hope one day Mrs. Reid will find time to tell us 

 herself more about her aviaries and their inhabitants, 

 but in the meantime I offer here a few rough notes, 

 which I hope will interest our readers : who, I expect, 

 will .share with me some regret that we cannot all 

 keep our birds under such favourable conditions, in a 

 country which is not only sunny and free from frost, 



• This article was written in Gambia.— Ed. 



