The Society's Medal 19



The Society's Medal



RULES


The Medal may be awarded at the discretion of the Committee to any

Member who shall succeed in breeding, in the United Kingdom, any species of

bird which shall not be known to have been previously bred in captivity in Great

Britain or Ireland. Any Member wishing to obtain the Medal must send a detailed

account for publication in the Magazine within about eight weeks from

the date of hatching of the young, and furnish such evidence of the facts as the

Executive Committee may require. The Medal will be awarded only in cases

where the young shall live to be old enough to feed themselves, and to be wholly

independent of their parents.


The account of the breeding must be reasonably full so as to afford

instruction to our Members, and should describe the plumage of the young and

be of value as a permanent record of the nesting and general habits of the species.

These points will have great weight when the question of awarding the Medal is

under consideration.


The parents of the young must be the bona fide property of the breeder. An

evasion of this rule, in any form whatever, will not only disqualify the breeder

from any claim to a Medal in that particular instance, but will seriously prejudice

any other claims he or she may subsequently advance for the breeding of the same

or any other species.


In every case the decision of the Committee shall be final.


The Medal will be forwarded to each Member as soon after it shall have been

awarded as possible.



The Medal is struck in bronze (but the Committee reserve the right to issue

it in silver in very special cases) and measures 2£ inches in diameter. It bears on

the obverse a representation of two birds with a nest containing eggs, and the

words " The Avicultural Society — founded 1894 ". On the reverse is the following

inscription : " Awarded to [name of recipient] for rearing the young of [name of

species], a species not previously bred in captivity in the United Kingdom ".



