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aviaries, the breeding of rare species, and other matters 

 of special interest to aviculturists and others which we fear 

 we hardly have space to comment on, but we should like to- 

 draw the attention of our readers to one or two of the more 

 generally interesting contributions. 



Mr. E. Hopkinson, D.S.O., has prepared an exhaustive- 

 historv of the Budgerigar from the time of Latham, who 

 first brought the bird to notice. It is stated to have been 

 introduced as a cage-bird into tbis country by John Gould 

 about 1840, while its later history, and especially the first 

 appearance of the blue variety iu England in 1910, is of 

 great interest. 



Major Perreau continues his notes on- the birds to be seen 

 about Bakloh in the Punjab and also about tliose he has in 

 his aviaries at the same place. Mr. F. Dawson Smith writes 

 on the birds he noticed when on a visit to Achill Island on 

 the west coast of Ireland last year, and Mr. Shore Baily 

 has an article, among many, on the Grebes of England and 

 California, and he tells us that the '' Grebe fur " so often 

 worn by ladies is prepared from the skins of JEchmophorus 

 ocaWe/i^a/is, a Californian species which is found in countless, 

 numbers in the swamps of that State. 



Mr. Wesley Page contributes an interesting article on 

 the " Endurance of Birds " as tested by his experiences in- 

 outdoor bird-keeping. He gives a long list of the species 

 he has had in his aviaries, showing those which are, and 

 those which are not hardy to our wunter. 



The only coloured plate is one illustrating the Purple 

 Malachite and Black-breasted Sunbirds, drawn and coloured 

 from examples exhibited at the Holborn bird-show iu 

 February last year. Some notes to accompany the plate 

 are sent by the Hon. ]Mrs. G. Bourke, who owned and 

 showed the birds. 



From ' Timehri,' the organ of the Royal Agricultural 

 Society of British Guiana, there is reprinted an article on 

 " Some Colony Birds " dealing with many of the commoner 

 birds of Demarara ; this contains very useful accounts of 



