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In February, Mr. W. H. St. Quintin gives us a coloured 

 plate of the Waxwiug and another of its egg, while relating 

 his unfortunate failure to rear the young that were hatched 

 in 1903 ; in March he follows this up with notes on 

 the breeding of the Eider and other Ducks, Tragopans, 

 CapercaillieSj and so forth at Scampston. In October 

 Mr. G. H. Gurney^ a new member, signalizes his advent by 

 a good paper on Centropus superciliosus, brought by him 

 from British East Africa, which is preceded by a shorter 

 notice in October on the breeding of Aramides ypecaha in 

 his aviaries. 



In October, November, and March those constant con- 

 tributors Mr. H. D. Astley and Mr. R. Phillipps join forces 

 to write oi Agapornis nigrigenis (col. pi.), and give an excellent 

 account of its breeding, wherein we wish to call special 

 attention to the habit noticed in some members of the 

 genus of carrying nesting-material among the feathers so 

 as to leave the bill free for climbing purposes. In September, 

 October, January, and March, Mr. Astley also writes on the 

 nesting of Turacus corythaix, on rare birds from New Guinea 

 (especially the Paradise-birds in Mrs. Johnstone's col- 

 lection), on certain Thrushes, and on Bower- birds. In 

 September, moreover, Mr. E. J. Brooks gives an account of 

 the breeding in captivity of Artamus superciliosus, and 

 Mr. Williams of that of Conurus cerugitiosus ; while Mr. C. 

 B. Smith has furnished a series of papers in the various 

 numbers on the display of the Monal Pheasant, on the 

 Rock Ptarmigan and Harlequin Duck, and the nesting of 

 Nothoprocta maculosa and Francolinus vulgaris on his 

 premises. 



In November and December Mrs. Johnstone and Sir 

 William Ingram are once more to the fore with articles on 

 Paradise-birds, the former writing on Cicinnurus regius, of 

 which she possessed two males and three females (col. pi.), 

 and the latter on Paradisea rudolphi brought from New 

 Guinea by Messrs. Horsbrugh and Stalker. In October 

 Mr. T. H. Newman describes his successful attempt at 

 breeding Geopjhaps scripta. 



