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THE


Avicultural Magazine,


BEING THE JOURNAL OF

THE AVICULTURAL SOCIETY

FOR THE STUDY OF

FOREIGN & BRITISH BIRDS

IN FREEDOM & CAPTIVITY.



Third Series. —Vol. X.—No. 8 .—All rights reserved. JUNE, 1919.



AMALGAMATION.


The Editor draws attention to the thoughtful and valuable

letter on this subject published elsewhere in this issue. Our

correspondent but voices the wishes of many of us when he suggests

that Bird Notes should be amalgamated with the Avicultural

Magazine.


The widespread and growing movement in favour of union is,

as we know, of many years’ standing : negotiations favouring this

object have more than once been on foot. It has been said, and well

said, time after time, that there is no opposition between the

Avicultural Society and the Foreign Bird Club. To the man in the

street it must indeed seem amazing that in these days of dear paper,

dear illustrations, and emptying aviaries there should be two

Societies, both professing the same object, both hampered by many

difficulties, and by loss of members due to the War, yet each

pursuing its own way—disunited, dissevered, disrupted—as if their

aims were poles apart.


The cost of production is enormous. Those of us who

study the business side of natural history publishing understand only

too well why the coloured illustration is banished from our front


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