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prize in this class. The winner was catalogued as a 

 "Black and Gold Tanager," but it was not a Tanager 

 at all, but a Yellow-shouldered Hangnest (^Icterus 

 tibialis), a. bird that had no right in this class whatever. 

 Mr. Townsend's Blue-winged Chloropsis should have 

 been third instead of fourth, a position which it 

 shared with Captain Kerr's Common Green Bulbul. 

 Mr. Hawkins' rare Crowned Tanagers should not, I 

 think, have been passed unnoticed, as they were, by 

 the Judge. 

 Cr^ASS 127. All species not comprised in the above. 



This is always an interesting class, but it must be 

 a difficult one to judge. Some of the exhibits which 

 obtained nothing more than a V. H. C. or H. C. card 

 were quite as good as the prize-winners. Mr. L. W. 

 Hawkins' obtained first prize with a very fine White- 

 throated Ground-Thrush ; Mr. Osbaldeston's Green- 

 billed Toucan was second, and the same gentleman's 

 Purple-headed Glossy Starling third. Mr. Townsend's 

 Andaman Starling and Mrs. Anningson's pair of Green 

 Glossy Starlings, both of which obtained V.H.C. cards^ 

 were about as good as they could be. 



poet noortem IReports. 



{Vide Rules). 



Canary. (Mr. vSlatter). This bird, which was iutensel}' fat, 

 had an eiionnously enlarged spleen, a congested and 

 softened liver, pnennioiiia of one lung, and cerebral 

 hceniorrhage. Snch a condition was strongly suspicious 

 of septicccmia. No microscopical examination was made. 



BiCHRNO Finch. (Mr. Fillmer). Pneumonia was the cause of 

 death. 



Budgerigar. (Mr. vSlatter). Pneumonia. 



Canary. (Miss Nicholson). The lungs were congested and 

 the air sacs contained a good deal of flaky exudation of 

 lymph. 



Budgerigars, two. (Mr. Ilentsch). All the organs were 

 quite healthy, but the alimentary tract in both birds was 

 entirely empty of food. 



