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Oilioy's Myiiah — a fine bird in perfect plumage, but 

 scarcely entitled to priority over two or three others in 

 the class. Third Mr. Glasscoe's vSacred Kingfisher— a 

 lovely bird, but not looking very well. Fourth, Mr. 

 (ilasscoe's White Kyebrowed Wood-swallow, which the 

 writer preferred to the first prize-winner, but which no 

 ^loubt lost place through want of steadiness. V.H.C. 

 :Miss Hopwood's Rosy Pastor. H.C. Mr. Townseud's 

 :\Ialabar Green Bulbul, a nice bird, but not in quite 

 perfect feather. C. Mr. Plousden's Rails— a pair of rare 

 and Ijeautiful birds which should have been among the 

 ])rize winners. It is understood that the Judge did not 

 consider them to be cage-birds, but we cannot find that 

 the competition was expressly restricted to cage-birds by 

 the Schedule, and by giving them a card the Judge 

 practically admitted them to competition. This class 

 also contained a Pekin Robin. The Mr. Glasscoe who 

 exhibited some very charming birds in this Class is not 

 Mr. G. D. Glasscoe the member of the Foreign Bird 

 Club, but his brother. 



The class for F'oreign Goldfinches and the Limit 

 Class were cancelled. 



Mr. Swaysland judged all the foreign classes, and the 

 awards were, on the whole, well received. We have 

 pointed out some instances in which we differ from him, 

 but judging is, after all, a matter of opinion, and there 

 was not much to complain of. 



The Class for Stuffed Birds contained 30 entries — 

 these did not suffer from the cold. A card announcing 

 that all birds in the Show were fed ou .somebody's seed 

 looked rather out of place over the stuffed birds. 



SOME INTERESTING BIRDS AT THE 

 PALACE SHOW. 



The two pairs of Rufous-Taii^kd Finches and 

 Red-f\ced Finches (W^iener's Waxbill) exhibited were 

 very interesting, as showing the similarity (and at the 

 same time the difference) between these two representa- 



