October. I hope the balance will be redressed next month, 

 and that our April issue will be of quite special interest to non- 

 exhibiting lovers of foreign birds. 



i<)th March, 190^. 



HORATIO R. FILLMER, 

 Hon. Sec, 

 52, Ship Strpoet, Brighton. 



TO THE HON. SEC. OF THE FOREIGN BIRD CLUB. 



SiR^ — As a member of the Council who will not seek 

 re-election, I venture to take upon myself the responsibility 

 of calling the attention of my fellow members to the great 

 importance of the election of the Council which is about to take 

 place. When the present Council was elected, twelve months 

 ago, the Foreign Bird Club was still in the experimental stage, 

 and it was open to doubt whether it would live to become a 

 flourishing Society. Since tlien the membership has doubled, 

 and I take it that all question as to the success of the venture 

 is at an end. 



Under these circumstances it is essential to the well-being 

 of the Club that really representative members should compose 

 the Council. 



We are a union of exhibitors and non-exhibitors. Let us 

 see that each section is adequately and equally represented. 

 Let us take care that the representatives of the exhibitors 

 are men of leading among the exhibitors themselves, and that 

 the delegates of the non-exhibitors are selected from those 

 members who take an active part in the work of the Club, and 

 particularly in writing for " Bird Notes." 



And in order that this may be done, it is necessary that 

 the members who would be suitable for election, shall them- 

 selves intimate their willingness to serve. I appeal to them to 

 do this. Randolph Ouin. 



