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Correspondence.



[We are grateful to Mrs. Cook for her generous offer, of which

we hope to avail ourselves later, if the overcrowded state of our

illustration drawer will allow. ■ Mrs. Cook’s beautiful work is well

known to all readers of Bird Notes, and the above letter demonstrates

once more the cordial relations existing between the Foreign Bird

Club and the Avicultural Society.—G. R.]



THE REVIVAL OF AVICULTURE.


“ Arequipa,” 7 Aigburth Road,

Liverpool.


May 29, 1919.


Dear Dr. Renshaw, — I know it will interest you to learn

that I have at length (after some thirty-five years with Cross)

commenced business on my own account.


On principle I shall not conduct my business, as has been too

often the case in past years, in a close shop. In regard to all birds it

is my intention to keep them in outdoor garden aviaries. I have

now been in business since April 12, and I am sure your readers will

be glad to know that, after four years general prohibition of imports,

, stock is gradually arriving, and I have received and disposed of since

I commenced business the following birds: 47 Grey Parrots, 10 Blue-

fronted Amazon Parrots, 5 Festive Amazons, 2 Yellow-fronted

Amazons, 2 Noble Macaws, 5 Jendaya Conures, 5 Nandy Conures,

1 Rock Mynah, 1 Pennant Parrakeet, 1 Red Rosella; Senegal

Finches—288 Fire Finches, 87 Russ’s and Redbill Weavers, 10 Olive

Weavers, 6 Golden Oriole Weavers, 2 Song Sparrows, 190 Oryx,

Crimson, and Napoleon Bishop Weavers, 176 Cordon Bleus,

115 Senegal Waxbills, 3 Orange-cheek Waxbills, 8 Green Singing

Finches, 5 Grey Singing Finches, 2 Shaft-tail Whydahs, 4 Pin-tail

Whydalis, 61 Ribbon Finches, 40 Lavender Finches, 20 African

Silver-bills, 45 Combasous, 12 Bronze Mannikins. Also 1 Rock

Mynah from India and the following mammals and reptiles:

1 Humboldt’s Woolly or Lagothrix Monkey, 2 Red Titi Monkeys,

1 Tamarin Monkey, 6 Capuchin Monkeys, 2 Dog-face Monkeys,

1 Putty-nose Monkey, 8 Sooty Mangabeys, 2 Callitrix Monkeys,



