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well are sliort practical papers and correspondence. 

 Kveryone who keeps birds must have liad.ww^ experience 

 worth recording — let ns have it, even if the telling of it 

 will occup}' a few lines only. No one need be afraid of 

 sending what he may consider rubbish — I, as Editor, 

 will be the judge of that, and I have a large waste paper 

 basket. Do, please, help me to make the next few num- 

 bers of " Bird Notes" the fullest and most interesting 

 which have appeared. 



The well-known Red-faced Love-bird (Agapornis 

 pullariaj has, I believe, never nested successfully in this 

 country. It is very rare for it to make an}' attempts in 

 that direction, and therefore the fact that our member 

 Mrs. Anningson obtained eggs from her birds this sum- 

 mer, is worth recording. 



The classification of foreign birds in the Schedule of 

 the Autumn show of the L. and P. O. vSociety, is an 

 amazing production. Apparently its authors do not 

 consider Amazons and Greys to be Parrots — for their 

 first class is for "Amazons and Grey Parrots, Macaws, 

 Cockatoos and Parrots, including Lories." "Waxbills, 

 Mannikins, Combassous, Weavers and any Whydahs" 

 is another peculiar class. I should like to know the 

 exact meaning which attaches to the word " any " before 

 Whydahs. The Grassfinches are not included in this 

 class, and therefore go with the finches in the class for 

 A. O. V. of Seed-eating Birds — the effect of which is 

 that the judge has to decide what species are Waxbills 

 or Mannikins and what are Grassfinches, with the result 

 that he either has to " wrong class " pretty freely, or be 

 afterwards criticised for undue laxity. It may be neces- 

 sary at Shows with a very large number of classes to 

 distinguish the Grassfinch from their congeners — but it 

 is certainly both unnecessary and undesirable to do so 

 when only eight or nine classes for foreign birds are 

 provided. Win' the class for Java Sparrows should be 

 restricted to Grey, and wh}' these must be exhibited 

 singly, are problems which I feel to be beyond me. The 



