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with such a small response the Show Committee must 

 have considered it in this light. The Selling and 

 Cage Classes completed the Section and are com- 

 mented on later. 



The judging was performed by two of our best 

 known present day judges, and the third — Mr. Fillmer 

 — certainly has the confidence of foreign bird 

 keepers in his ability to discharge this by no means 

 €asy function. 



When the Exhibition was opened at two o'clock 

 on the first day everything was a model of neatness 

 The prize cards were all up — in the Foreign Bird. 

 Section at all events — and the birds were quite "at 

 home" and prepared to receive their visitors and. 

 friends. The following notes on the various sections 

 are supplied by a well known Member of the Club. 



THE PARROT CLASSES. 



There was nothing exceptionally new in these 

 Classes, I thought — though some of the birds were 

 exceedingly interesting and the quality throughout of 

 a high class. Mr. Camps had done his work with 

 evident care, and though I differed from his awards in 

 one or two instances it was in comparativel}^ minor 

 cases. 



Class 140. Twelve ejiU'ies. {BtLdgerigars and all 

 species of Lovebirds and Hanging Parrots^. First and 

 Special, No. 201, Mrs. Anningson, with a wonderful 

 pair of Peach-faced Love-birds, certainly the best 

 birds in the Class and deserved to win. Second, 

 another pair of Mrs. Anningson's Love-birds — quite 

 equal to winning when their companions are absent. 

 Third, Mrs. Chas. Cooper, nice Love-bird in good 

 condition. Fourth, Messrs. Driver and Hunt, pair of 

 Yellow Budgerigars, good birds, but poorly shewn. I 

 should have put them behind the next exhibit on this 



