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Waxbill I cannot say, but I can say that, as a protest against Mr. Farrar’s

continuous objectionable remarks (which now we never fail to delete from

the proof sheets) concerning other Members of the Society, who toiled in

the dark and laboured at aviculture years and years before he was ever

heard of, and the fruits of whose labours he now reaps, I decline to take a

Medal for either the Wren or the Waxbill, whether awarded or not. I do

not keep my birds for Medals. The pleasure in watching the friendly little

Waxbills and the timid and fragile little Wren, and Mr. Gronvold’s

exquisite painting of the latter and its parents, are better to me than any

number of Medals. Reginald PhillippS.



IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MAGAZINE.


Sir, —May I have a short space to answer one sentence of Dr. Salt’s

letter, viz., the one referring to the covers going the way of all covers to

the w.p.b. as waste. No bookbinder who understood his art would do such

a thing in binding the Avicultural Magazine, but would on the contrary

carefully preserve them and bind them in at the end of the perfect

pagination. Ail}’ binder who did otherwise with my numbers would have

the volume returned, with a request for fresh copies bound in a proper

manner, as indeed I had to once.


As a bibliopliilist, as well as an aviculturist, I do not see why an

engraved cover should get roughened and dirty, except by improper and

careless treatment. My books, and those of any book lover, are kept in

“mint” condition.


Whilst agreeing that the interior could be improved, for nothing is

perfect, I would ask Dr. Salt to compare the volume just ended with any

earlier one he likes to take, and make a comparison both as regards literary

matter and illustrations.


One who would cavil at an engraved cover afterwards, must indeed

be hard to please. P. Wellington Farmborough.



POST MORTEM EXAMINATIONS.


RULES.


Each bird must be forwarded, as soon after deatli as possible, carefully packed and postage

paid, direct to Mr. Arthur Gill, M.R.C.V.S., Veterinary Establishment, Bexley Heath,

Kent, and must be accompanied by a letter containing the fullest particulars of

the case.


If a reply by post (in addition to any Report that mayappear in the Magazine) be required,

a stamped and addressed envelope must likewise be sent.


Diamond Dove. (Mrs. Ratliborne). [Cause of death was apoplexy. The

injury to top of the head being caused by the fall].


Roseate Cockatoo. (Miss Tate). [Your bird died of acute inflammation

of the liver].



