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success there can be no doubt, though we had certainly 

 hoped for far more than 195 entries in our Section, 

 Perhaps members will, with a confidence borne of 

 experience, be more ready to send their birds another 

 year — at least we hope they will. 



P'inancialh', we shall probably have a small balance 

 to hand to the Club, and are extremely pleased to 

 state that we do not think it will be necessary to call 

 on any of the members who so kindly supported the 

 guarantee fund. 



Personally, we have had to pay the price, but if 

 the members appreciate our efforts to forward the 

 Club and its interests, we shall feel that our troubles 

 have not been borne, and overcome, in vain. 



Iforcitju Soft-bUlcC) JBtrD5 at the ipalacc 



By RUSSKLI, HUMPHRYS, 



AKING the classes consigned to me at the recent 

 Amalganited Show in rotation, the first class 

 was No. 149. {Ail species of Tanagers, Sugar 

 Birds, S nil Birds, aicd Zosterops). 



This class contained several birds of exceptional 

 merit, the first prize being awarded to an excellent 

 example of the Magpie Tanager {Cissopis leveriana). 

 I believe the same bird was exhibited at the previous 

 Palace Show, and the writer was informed that it had 

 moulted in an outdoor aviary. A very fine specimen 

 of this handsome Tanager was for some years to be 

 seen in the Insect-house at Regent's Park. 



Second Prize was taken by a Yellow Tanager 

 {Calliste Jiava) catalogued as a Golden and Green ; (a 

 rare bird in the pink of condition and plumage, in 

 fact looking better than I have ever seen it before). A 

 Green- headed Tanager (C tricolo?^, catalogued as a 



