Two medals have been presented — to Mr. R. A. Todd for

breeding the Ivong-tailed Grass-finch {Poephila acuticatidd), and

to Mr. G. E. BousKii,!, for breeding the Golden-crowned New

Zealand Parrakeet {Cyanorhamphiis a^iriceps). Their success

should be an encouragement to others to try to breed new

species.


In March, Mr. St. Quintin, who was elected a member of

the Executive Committee at the beginning of the year, resigned,

as he had to go abroad, and Mr, Seth-Smith was chosen in his

place.


At the request of the R.S.P.C.A., we undertook the pre-

paration of a small pamphlet on " Birds during transit by Sea or

Land": this has been published by the R.S.P.C.A., and, we

believe, extensively circulated. In this matter several members,,

who are not on the Council, kindly assisted.


Our thanks are due to those members who have contributed

articles or letters to the Magazine. It is hoped that next year

the size of the Magazine may be again somewhat increased ;

and to meet this growth we shall want more matter from

our contributors. We hope that no one will wait to be asked

to write, but that everyone who feels that he has any facts of

interest to communicate will not hesitate to do so. Complaints

are sometimes made that the Magazine devotes insufficent space

to British birds, and papers upon that branch of the subjedl will

therefore be specially acceptable. But it must be recognised that

the scope for original observation is now much more restridted

in the case of British than foreign species, and we can therefore

hardly expecft to receive as many good articles upon the former

as we do upon the latter ; the subjedt of British birds has been

already so fully dealt with by many competent authors that it is,,

in a sense, comparatively exhausted.


We shall always be glad to receive, and publish, records

of the breeding of species not often bred in captivity, and

members should not be deterred from contributing such notes

by the fadl that the species has been bred once or twice before.


The publication of the Magazine b}^ Messrs. Betts and

Sons, Ltd., has relieved the Secretary of a good deal of work,.



