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Mr. Hawkins's perfect pair of Rufous-tailed Finches. 

 2nd, Mr. W. B. Frostick's Desert Trumpeter Bullfinch. 

 3rd, Mr. Osbaldeston, a Black Tanager, not at all dear 

 at 15/-. V.H.C., Mr. W. B. Frostick's pretty little 

 pair of aviary-bred Zebra Finches. H.C., Mr. Wood- 

 house's handsome pair of Sharp-tailed Finches, which 

 I thought ought to have had a higher honour. C, 

 Mr. W. B. Frostick's pair of White Java Sparrows, 

 also might have gone beyond the Zebra Finches. 

 There were also two or three other pairs of both 

 Ruficauda and Grassfinches, and some absentees. 



Class 154. Selling Class for Foreign Birds, price 

 to exceed 15/-. Cancelled. 



Class 155. 6 Eiitries. Suitable Cages and Aviaries 

 for Fo7'eion Birds. This should have been a very 

 interesting class, but unfortunately the entries were 

 few, some cages which ought to have been entered 

 here, having been placed in the General Cage Classes, 

 ist and Special 208, Mr. Acutt, a highly ingenious 

 quarantine or occasional cage, which i hope to see 

 described fully in Bird Notes some da\\ 2nd, and 

 Special, Mr. Newley, a beautifully made Flight Cage 

 for small birds. 3rd, a nice cage for small birds — 

 very suitable. This gentleman also exhibited a good 

 Exhibition Cage, and a very massive brass Parrot 

 Cage and Table. 



The success of the Show, from the Foreign bird 

 point of view, was entirely due to the indefatigable 

 efforts of the Show managers of our section, Mr. Swan 

 and Mr. Townsend. No praise is too great to 

 bestow upon their conduct of the affair from beginning 

 to end, and the satisfactor\' result of llieir labours 

 must have been very pleasing to them. 



