The Bird Market. 



Members' Rates : ONE PENNY PER WORD; MINIMUM ONE 

 SHILLING. Non-members and all Trade advertisers must apply to the 

 Agents {vide page Hi. of cover). Advertisements for respective issues must 

 be sent to the Hon. Editor not later than the 8th of each month. 



MEMBERS' SALES, EXCHANGES AND WANTS. 



I'.XCHANGE : True pair, delightfully tame, Canary-winged Parrakeets 



for hen Red-faced Lovebird and cock Blue-winged Lovebird, or sell. — 



Bearby, Church Street, West Hartlepool. 

 EOR SALE : Pair Californian Quail, adults, 40s. pair. — W. Shore Baily, 



Boyers Plouse, Westbury, Wilts. 

 FOR SALE: Goukl=an T niches (Red and Black) Lcng-tailed and Masked 



Grassfinches. — Chaplin, Great Amwell, Ware, Herts. 



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RULES. 



1. The objects of " The Foreign Bird Club " shall W the niutuai 

 encouragement and assistance of the members in keeping and L-reeding all 

 species of Birds, and the exhibiting of Foreign Birds and the improvement 

 of Shows in regard to them. 



2. The Club shall be composed of members. Every member shall 

 pay an entrance fee of 5s., and an annual subscription of _'os. Subscrip- 

 tions shall be due and payable in advance on the ist of January in each 

 vear. If any member's subscription shall be more than three mpnths overdue, 

 he shall be suspended from all benefits of the Club, and if more than nine 

 months overdue, notice of his having ceased to be a member of the Club, and 

 of the cause, may be published in Notices to Members ; and on such notice 

 being published he shall cease to be a member accordingly, but his liability 

 for overdue subscriptions shall continue. 



3. New Members shall be proposed in writing by a Member of the 

 Club ; and the name and address of every person thus proposed, with the 

 riame of the person proposing him, shall be published in the Notices to Mem- 

 bers. Unless the Candidate shall, within fourteen days after the publication 

 of his name, be objected to by at least two Members, he shall be duly elected. 

 If two or more Members shall lodge with either of the Secretaries objections 

 to any Candidate he shall not be elected, but the signature to the signed 

 objections must be verified by the Scrutineer. The Secretaries and the 

 Scrutineer shall not disclose the names of the objectors. 



4. Any member wishing to resign at the end of the current year of 

 the Club shall give notice of intention to one of the Secretaries before the 

 31st of December, and in default of such notice he shall be liable for the 

 following year's subscription. 



5. The Officers of the Club shall be elected from the Members, and 

 shall consist of a President, one or more Vice-presidents, an Auditor, a 

 Scrutineer, one or more Secretaries, a Treasurer, a Veter'nary Surgeon, a 



