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fleshy eye-rings, yellow in colour and scalloped on 

 the outer margins. 



FLYCATCHERS. Of these I know only two 

 species well, the common Spotted Flycatcher of 

 Europe, and the beautiful Eong - tailed Paradise 

 Flycatcher {Terpsiphone), though there are others not 

 uncommon, one of which is a beautiful blue bird 

 which appears to visit this country only during the 

 rains. The Spotted Flycatcher is common here all 

 the winter months, especially along the river, where 

 his methods and manners are in no way different 

 from those we know so well at home, and where one 

 hopes the chief article in his diet is the (epithetted) 

 mosquito. 



{To be cojitimied). 



:Biv£) ipicturcs at the IRoval aca&emv. 



By H. GooDCHiivD, M.B.O.U. 



TO THOSE of our Club v/ho find, in the annual 

 exhibition at Burlington House, their chief 

 interest in the bird-pictures, the present Show 

 will be a disappointing one. 



Nothing by Thorburn, nothing by Lodge, nothing 

 indeed by any of the recognised bird painters. Know- 

 ing that for the last year or two we have not had the 

 pleasure of seeing pictures by either of the above 

 artists, I was not so much surprised, on looking 

 in the catalogue, to find that their names were absent. 

 But I fully expected to find something by that 

 distinguished amateur. Sir Harry Johnston, whose 

 intensely realistic paintings of bird life, as seen by 

 himself in tropical Africa, were a feature of recent 

 exhibitions. It was therefore with a greater sense of 

 loss that I found that even he was not repre.sented. 



