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With the Avicultural Society. The Council agreed to this proposal on

condition that no alteration should take place in the personnel of our

officers, and that all the members of the Foreign Bird Society should be

elected under our rules. This was agreed to, and the proposed amalgama¬

tion accordingly took place.


A letter was received from the Secretary of the London and Provincial

Ornithological Society, in August, suggesting that the Avicultural Society

should hold a show of Foreign Birds at the Aquarium, in conjunction with

the October Show of that Societ}'. The Executive Committee were

unanimously of opinion that it was undesirable to adopt this suggestion.


Considering the many misunderstandings which arise out of the sale

and purchase of birds, we think it a matter for congratulation that no com¬

plaints of unfair dealing have been laid before us in the case of sales brought

about by the Members’ Sale and Exchange Column.


The accounts of the Society have not yet been audited, but the

Treasurer reports that he expects there will be a balance in hand of several

pounds at the end of the year.


We have great pleasure in announcing that, the Avicultural Magazine

will in future be permanently enlarged to not less than 16 pages per month,

and will be printed in larger and clearer type. We believe that our readers

will greatly appreciate this improvement, and that the attractiveness of the

Magazine will be very greatly increased.



In conclusion, we urge upon all the importance of remembering the

mutual character of the Society : we trust that each will feel it his duty to

do all that lies in his power to promote the prosperity of the SocietjE so

that its success in the future may he even greater than it has been in the

past.


Arthur G. Butter. Lucy C. D. Leeweeyn.


H. T. Tanseey Camps. Reginald Phieeipps.



V. CaSteeean.

Jas. F. Dewar.

John Frostick.

A. P. Jackson.



John Sergeant.

James Storey.

Waeter Sways eand.

Geo. C. Wieeiamson.



OUR BIRD ROOMS AND AVIARIES.


VI.


MY AVIARY.


By John Sergeant.


1 had been hoping that among so many possible contributors to this

series, our Secretary would overlook me and not call upon me for a descrip¬

tion of mv aviary. However, his summons has arrived, and as a member of

the Council I am assured that I ought not to decline; so I shall have to

ask you to bear with my literary short-comings for a while.


Several years ago the ground upon which my largest aviary now

stands was devoted to sundry specimens of the Domestic Fowl, but after the

most disastrous experience of keeping twenty head of them during a whole

winter without an egg being laid, their fate was decided upon, and they

were eaten.


The space thus rendered vacant in my small garden was too con¬

siderable to be wasted, so I decided to carry out the long cherished idea of

having an outdoor aviary, and to utilize the poultry run for the purpose.


It was an oblong space, bounded on one side and at one end by

walls 10 feet high, and at the other end b} ? a high out-house ; and was thus

only open on one side, which luckily faced S.S.E. It was 36 feet long and

15 feet wide, and required only the inner aviary to be built and the top and

one side of the outer aviary to be eredted and covered with wire netting.



