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THE


AVICULTURAL PI AGAZ1N E,


BEING THE JOURNAL OF

THE AVICULTURAL SOCIETY

FOR THE STUDY OF

FOREIGN & BRITISH BIRDS

IN FREEDOM & CAPTIVITY.



Third, Series. —Yol. X.—No. 1 .—All rights reserved. NOVEMBER, 1918.



A GOOD START.


“ What’s well begun is half clone ” runs the proverb. This

thought dominates the mind as the Magazine with this number

commences yet another avicultural year. Already it is plain that

the literary output will be excellent, while our pictures will equal

the letterpress—for which the Editor thanks all those who have

stood by him with pen and camera.


The illustration opposite has been selected from a line series

of photographs taken by our member and contributor Mr. G. E. Low.

Although other birds are included in the series, the collection

primarily deals with sea-birds—Gulls and Puffins. We see, for

instance, a wild headland awhirl with white wings; downy infant

Kittiwakes squatting in their rocky nursery; or a regiment of white-

fronted, black-backed Puffins marshalled in absurd dignity at their

breeding-station, or whirring past the camera, half filling the plate

with birds. Taken on the rocky cliffs of Irish islands, the photo¬

graphs are steeped in the very salt of the sea. One almost

hears—


“ The myriad cry of wheeling ocean-fowl,


The league-long roller thundering on the reef.”


We hope in due course to publish many of these sea-pictures,

constituting as they do a novelty amongst the attractions of the

Magazine. G. R.


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