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flew so swiftly that I could not get the glasses on to it to 

 recognise even the genus. AYe arrived at Bombay in the 

 afternoon, the Customs officers coming on board about 3 

 p.m bu'; the Gulls did not come out far to meet us, the first — 

 an immature Lani^ affinis — being seen only at l-.^O p.m. They 

 did not become numerous till we reached the Pilot brig outside 

 the harbour. 



The gulls in the harbour were of two species, the 

 commonest 'being Tarusbrunnri^epJialus, the Brown -headed Gull. 

 The other species was the Dark -backed Herring Gull, Lams 

 affinis. 



I must here note that Lams fuscus and Larus affinis 

 are in reality two races of one species, only to be determined 

 with certainty on a do se e?'amination. Hence my identification 

 of the Lesser Black -backed Gulls seen on various occa- 

 sions may not always have been correct, but for the purposes 

 of this account I have let them stand. 



Visits To Members' Aviaries. 



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

 In commencing another series of visits to members' 

 aviaries and birdrooms, I am simply responding to a general 

 c^ll, and I yenture to hope that other members, after a visit to 

 a fellow-member's aviaries, will send an article for publication 

 in the club journal. I have been privileged to make several 

 visits already, but I am waiting for photos and plans to Illus- 

 trate my descriptions; thus I am commencing with a short 

 description of Major F. Johnson's Aviaries at Hove; here I 

 am to have the pleasure of a second visit and then hope to 

 amplify these present notes and make them worthy the unique 

 series of British species I am seeking to describe. 



Major Johnson's Aviaries: My visit was unnanounced 

 and I did not find Major Johnson at home, ' On a future 

 occasion I hope to include many episodes of the birds I saw. 

 I really am at a loss how to begin, for the rapid passing before 

 one's vision of one dainty species after another was almost 

 bewildering, and most certainly entrancing. And I really must 

 leave any real attempt at describing the aviaries to a future 

 occasion, merely in the present attempting to convey a general 

 idea of them— the heated winter aviary I did not see. 



