RULES OF THE AVICULTURAL SOCIETY.



1. — The name of the Society shall be “The AvicueTurae .Society,”

and its objects shall be the study of Foreign and British Birds in freedom

and in captivity. Poultry, Pigeons, and Canaries shall be outside the scope

of the Society.


2. — The Avicultural Society shall consist of Ordinary and Honorary

Members, and the Tatter shall be restricted in number to six.


3. - — The Officers of the Society shall be elected annually by the

Members in manner hereinafter provided, and shall consist of a President,

one or more Vice-Presidents, a Treasurer, a Secretary, an Editor, an Auditor,

a Scrutineer, and a Council of Twelve Members. The Secretary, Editor,

and Treasurer shall be ex-officio members of the Council, and the first two

of the Executive Committee.


4. —New Members shall be proposed in writing ; and the name and

address of every person thus proposed, with the name of the Member

proposing him, shall be published in the next issue of the Magazine.

Unless the candidate shall, within two weeks after the publication of his

name in the Magazine, be objected to by at least two Members, he shall be

deemed to be duly elected. If five Members shall lodge with the Secretary

objections to any candidate he shall not be elected, but the signatures

to the signed objections must be verified by the Scrutineer. If two or more

Members (but less than five) shall object to any candidate, the Secretary

shall announce in the next number of the Magazine that such objections

have been lodged (but shall uot disclose the names of the objectors), and

shall request the Members to vote upon the question of the election of

such candidate. Members shall record their votes in sealed letters addressed

to the Scrutineer, and a candidate shall not be elected unless two-thirds of

the votes recorded be in his favour ; nor shall a candidate be eleCted if five

or more votes be recorded against his election.


5. —Each Member shall pay an annual subscription of 10/-, to be due

and payable in advance on the 1st of November in each year. New Mem¬

bers shall pay, in addition, an entrance fee of 2/6; and, on payment of their

entrance fee and subscription, they shall be entitled to receive all the

numbers of the Society’s Magazine for the current year.


6. —Members intending to resign their membership at the end of the

current year of the .Society shall be expected to give notice to the

Secretary before the 1st of October. Those who fail to give notice of

their intention to resign, and who, by failing to give any intimation of

their desire to leave the Society, permit their name to appear in the

November Magazine in the “ List of Members,” or to remain on the Books

of the Society, and thus allow the Society’s Magazine to be forwarded to

their published or other address, and those who, not having paid their



