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BIRD NOTES: 



THE 



JOURNAL OF THE FOREIGN BIRD CLUB. 



The L.G.B.A. Show. 



By Wksley T. Page, F.Z.S. 



The Foreign and British sections were a huge success 

 botli as regards conditions, rarity, and numbers. The Foreign 

 Section being especially well represented, though the Parrot 

 and Lory section was not so strong as usual; the entry in 

 the class for common species being a record one, viz., 23, 

 with only one absentee. I am not attempting a report in 

 this issue, just merely a mention of some of the more notable 

 exhibits, as a full report will appear in next issue. 



One of the rarest birds in the show I take to be Mr. 

 Townsend's Palish Blue Sugarbird, which is either Dacnis 

 nigripes or D. angelica, I rather think the latter, owing to 

 its small size, though the catalogue description of nigripes, 

 is the closer of the two to Mr. Townsend's bird, the latter, 

 however, is certainly much smaller than the well known D. 

 cay ana. Comparatively speaking it appears fully one third 

 smaller than the Blue Sugarbird (Z). cai/ana), has smaller 

 black areas, and the blue is of a much lighter shade, in fact 

 a totally different hue. 



The Long-crested Mexican Jays, exhibited by Mens. 

 Pauvvels, are a Tery rare and beautiful pair of birds, and 

 like the above are new to the English show bench. (Vide 

 plate) . 



A better and less cumbersome name for this species 

 would be Crowned Jays, and I have given them this title on 

 plate. At the show I took them to be Cyanocitta coronata, 

 owing to the absence of any greenish tinge on the birds' upper 

 plumage, but despite this variation a careful comparison of 

 skins proved them to be C. 'diademata . 



This pair of birds differ from the description in the B.M. 

 Cat. in lacking the greenish tinge on its upiper plumage. Above 

 it is puiplish-gi-eyish-blue, with distinct washes of cobalt on the 

 rumpi and upper tail -iqo verts; the tail feathers are darker and 



