find the food consists of some advertised mixture 

 containing all those seeds which are declared to be 

 Anathema, and that the Qgg which is supposed to be 

 so necessary to well being is always absent. On 

 further enquiry they will find that a bird of three or 

 four years of age is considered 3'oung, and that one of 

 fourteen or fifteen years is not very uncommon, i.e. 

 in those houses where in addition to rational feeding 

 the questions of due ventilation and undue draughti- 

 ness are properly considered. 



("To be continued) . 



IRevicw of the Club's foreign BirO Sbow, 

 Crvetal IPalacc, 2)ec. 8, 9, & 10, 1903. 



THE first Show held by the Foreign Bird Club 

 may certainly be considered a success, even if 

 the actual number of entries and the financial 

 result do not quite realise the hopes and 

 expectations which were formed. The Club was 

 doubly fortunate in being able to count upon the 

 experience and co-operation of the London Cage 

 Bird Association and in sharing the magnificent site 

 they had secured at the Crystal Palace. All the world 

 knows the Central Transept, and it was there the 

 birds were staged, and here let it be remarked that a 

 better place could not have been selected. The 

 Exhibition was shut off from the North and South 

 Naves by immense curtains falling in folds sixt}' feet 

 from the roof, which effectually precluded any 

 po.ssibility of a "through" draught. The Orchestra 

 and the Royal boxes comprised the East and West 

 ends respectively, the base of the former being 

 prettily decorated with palms, ferns, and other sub- 

 tropical plants, whilst groups of statutory scattered 



