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Cage Bird Carnival at the Crystal Palace is to hand. 

 The fixture is some five or six days later tha.n last year. 

 A formidable list of Judges adorn the front page, and 

 some new names are on the list : there are fourteen in all, 

 experienced and otherwise. 



The L. & P.O.S. Diplomas are conspicuous by the 

 number offered in the various sections. What is their 

 value when secured.^ Coming to the sections in 

 which we are interested, I am woefully disappointed as 

 to the soft-bills, while I congratulate the Show authorities 

 upon a Hen Bullfinch Class, and the Limit Class for an}' 

 finch, an}' nationality. But what is the meaning 

 in Class 114, which states that one prize will be awarded 

 to each species named, four equal firsts, or as heretofore ? 

 A Robin Class is scheduled — a failure last year, but again 

 inserted. No Nightingale and Blackcap Class, and only 

 two classes for soft-bills, which should be extended at the 

 expense of the long rows of Linnets, Goldfinches, etc., 

 etc. We congratulate the L. & P.O.S. iipon the use of the 

 word "species," but not upon the "Redpoll" or any 

 other " poll." 



W. A. LoTT. 



THE FOREIGN BIRD CLUB, 



Members ofthe Avicultural Society who join the Club, 

 are, under our rules, admitted without formal election. 

 It is intended in future, when publishing the names of 

 such members in the list of "New Members Elected," to 

 indicate the fact of their being members of the 

 Avicultural Society and to give the name of the member 

 of the Club by whom they were introduced. vSuch 

 "introductions," for the purpose of the " New Members 

 Competition " (see page 212), will be considered equiva- 

 lent to "proposals." 



It is proposed to issue cloth cases for binding Vob 



