68 The Passing of the Honorary Correspondence Secretary


The third Asiatic family are a portion of the Cockatoo race. These

are rarely great talkers, but one of the Asiatic species, the great Salmon-

crested Cockatoo, often articulates with amazing distinctness. They

are nearly all intelligent. I may, perhaps, relate the evidence of this

that I had at Bordeaux last autumn. The other Asiatic species are

the large all-white Cockatoo of the Moluccas ; Coffin’s Yellowish

Cockatoo from the Solomon Islands ; and the little Lemon-crested

Cockatoo from the Moluccas, a miniature of the great Australian

Lemon-crested.


(To be continued.)



THE PASSING OF THE HONORARY

CORRESPONDENCE SECRETARY


By a resolution of the Council the time-honoured post of Honorary

Correspondence Secretary, dating as it does from 1903, has been

abolished. A familiar announcement thus disappears from the cover

of the Magazine.


The Hon. Business Secretary has been empowered to select as

Referees various expert members of the Society, who will advise in

matters of difficulty, such as the treatment of delicate birds. Thus our

work will not be hindered, and we trust to benefit as in the past by the

knowledge and experience of our former Correspondence Secretary.



MY EXPERIENCES AS CORRESPONDENCE

SECRETARY


By Arthur G-. Butler, Ph.D., etc.


In June, 1903, it was proposed by the Council that I should be

appointed Correspondence Secretary to the Society, my chief duty

being to answer questions asked by Members relating to the care and

feeding of birds in captivity, the identification of birds received from

description as far as possible, sex-differences, nesting habits, etc.

It was wisely permitted in the case of birds of which I could not pretend



