All right ■i reserved. iMARcn, 1913. 



BIRD NOTES: 



THE 



JOURNAL OF THE FOREIGN BIRD CLUB 

 The L.P.O.S. National Show. 



By Wesley T. Page, F.Z.S., etc. 



FOKEIGN BlllU SECTION. 



Continued from page 63. 



Some of the principal birds enumerated in our last issue 

 having already been I'ully described in "B.N.," e.g. Vinaceous 

 Firelinches, Sepoy Finch, Chilian Siskin, Amethyst-rumped 

 Sunbird, Japanese and Loo-choo Robins, and many others — it 

 must suffice to say that those not given special notice, for 

 above reasons, were perfect specimens of their kind. 



I propose therefore to deal fairly fully with the classes 

 in lieu of lengthy descriptions here, excepting the species 

 ligured on our frontispiece, viz.: — 



Top (right) figure: Short-billed Minivet (Pericrocotus 



hrevirostris). 

 Middle (left) figures: Black-headed Siskins cf, 9 

 {Chrysomitris icterica)\. 



Bottom figure: Blue Chaffinch {Fringilla teydea). 



Shokt-billed Minivet {Pericrocotus hreinrostris) : 

 This brilliant genus consists of some fifteen species, which 

 are conffiied to India and Eastern Asia. They have close 

 affinity to the Shrikes, and in the "Cambridge Natural His- 

 tory; Birds" they are placed in the Fam. Campcijhagidae (Cuc- 

 koo -Shrikes)., with a no,te that they are possibly connectjeid 

 with the Muscicapidae oi Corvidue. All the fifteen species 

 are of brilliant colouration, except two — sheeny black and scarlet 

 — black and orange, — black and yellow, in varying range of 

 hues, being the principal colours of the males. The specimen, 

 figured by Mr. Goodchild on our frontispiece, has moulted 



