I sliall be pleased to send some extra copies of 

 '• Notes" to any of onr members who would like to have 

 them for distribution among peo})le likely to join the 

 Club. 



I am sure that our highly-esteemed fellow member 

 INIr. Camps has the sincere and heart}- sympatliy of all of 

 us in the bereavement he has sustained through the 

 death of his father, ]\Ir. Drage Camps. 



This season, the beginning of winter, re-awakens the 

 interest of many of us in the difficult question of warm- 

 ing the bird-room or aviary. Will each member let me 

 know the method of heating (if any) which he or she 

 adopts, and its success or otherwise ? We can then 

 compare notes. 



Inexperienced exhibitors sometimes have a difficulty 

 in deciding which classes their birds should be entered 

 in. I should be ver}- pleased to help in such cases. I 

 cannot, of course, undertake any responsibility for the 

 result of m}- advice, for some Show Schedules are so 

 queerly worded that the question of "which class" 

 becomes a matter of opinion and not of fact. 



As a large proportion of the members of the Foreign 

 Bird Club are also members of the Avicnltural Society, I 

 should like to tr}' to make plain the attitude of the Club 

 towards the Society. Some of our members have 

 expressed a fear that the Club will injure the Society. I 

 do not think it will, for the reason that its aims and 

 objects are different. The Avicnltural Societ}', whatever 

 it may once have been, now claims to be a scientific 

 societ}', and it adopts towards Shows an attitude of 

 deprecation, if not of veiled hostility. The Foreign 

 Bird Club does not pretend to be in any sense a scientific 

 society, and aims at nothing more than the mutual help 

 and encouragement of the members in their hobby of 

 bird-keeping. And the Club does all in its power to 

 encourage vShows. Having therefore different views and 

 purposes, the Club has no desire or intention of compet- 

 ing with the Avicnltural Society, or of drawing members 

 from it. By all means let everyone belong to both the 

 Club and the Society, if they will. 



