428 



Index. 



Shows : meetings and general 

 business at, 388. 



Officers for, 385 



Open, 383. 



Packing birds for, 47, 407. 



Patrons of, 386. 



Points prizes at, 394. 



Preparing birds for, 371. 



Printing for, 398. 



Prizes at, 394, 401, 414. 



Programmes for, 399. 



Receiving birds at, 405. 



Removal of prices from cages, 

 410. 



Returning birds from, 407. 



Rules for, 400. 



Schedules for, 390, 400. 



Secretary's duties at, 397. 



Servants employed at, 392. 



Selling tickets for, 409. 



Staging birds at, 405. 



Tickets for, 389, 409. 



Treasurer's duties at, 412. 

 Shrubs, branches of, for aviaries. 



85. 



Sib-bred birds, 93, 105. 

 Sing, birds declining to, in the 

 presence of other birds, 

 190. 

 Singing birds, cages for, 35. 



Canary or canary mule for ? 

 191. 



Hens, 81. 



Single pairs, how to manage, 68. 

 Siskin and canary mules, 362. 

 Soap for washing canaries, 365. 

 Societies, Belgian, rules of, 232. 



And close and open shows, 

 376. 



Officers of, 385. 

 Solitary nestlings, 79. 

 Songs of other birds, canaries 



learning, 190. 

 Sore feet, 151. 

 Spangle-backs, 358. 

 Specimen of balance sheet, 413. 



Of entry form, 402. 



Of programme for show, 



400. 

 Staining cages, 14. 



Standards of excellence : 



Belgian, 227. 



Border Fancy, 350. 



Cinnamon, 273, 279. 



Dark goldfinch mules, 263. 



Glasgow Don, 241. 



Goldfinch and canary mules. 

 360, 361. 



Green canaries, 354. 



Lancashire Coppy, 258. 



Lizard, 339. 



London Fancy, 348. 



Manchester Coppy, 258. 



Modern Cinnamon, 279. 



Modern crested Norwich, 322, 

 330. 



Modern Scotch Fancy, 250. 



Norwich Fancy, 301, 302, 318, 

 322, 330. 



Scotch Fancy, 241. 



Yorkshire Fancy, 262, 264, 



265. 



Staging birds for show, 405. 

 Stock birds, flighting, 51. 

 Straightener, wire, 11. 

 Stud book, 67, 182. 

 Surfeit, 152. 

 Sweating, 74. 



Young birds, hens, 74. 

 Swollen joints, 152. 

 Symptoms of, and first treatment 

 during moult, 163. 



Of diseases, 121. 

 Syncope, 152. 



T. 



Tail-feathers, drawing, 371. 



Taming birds, 192. 



Tassel or crest, 286. 



Teaching German canaries to sing, 



355. 

 Telegram, 277. See Cinnamon, 



Modern. 



Tempers of canaries, 51. 

 Tickets for shows, 389. 



Selling, for shows, 409. 

 Timid birds, 190. 

 Tin, drinking, 42. 



