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distinguished ornithologist Lord Lilford became President, and

the Committee was strengthened by the addition of the names

of Dr. Simpson, Mr. J. Sergeant, and others. The bound

“ Reports ” of this year form a volume of 254 pages.


Next year, 1893-4, there was a slight falling off in the

membership, while the Reports consisted of only 142 pages.

In the following year, the membership had fallen to between

thirty and forty, and the Reports to about seventy pages. In

May, 1895, the Society was amalgamated with the Avicultural

Society.


Ths four Volumes of Reports (Vol. I. has long been out

of print) are useful for reference, as several cases of breeding-

are therein recorded. But, to the present-day aviculturist, the

chief interest of the U.K.F.C.B.S. lies in the fact that it was

the fore-runner of the Avicultural Society, and if it had not

existed, it is probable that the Avicultural also would never

have come into being. The object of the founders of the

Avicultural Society was to start a similar Society on improved

lines, and they did not launch the new Society until after an

unsuccessful attempt to reform the old one.


Another Society which served in some degree as a model

for the Avicultural was the Cage Bird Club (a 7 ). No doubt the

success of the Avicultural Society is in some measure due to

the fact that its founders had before them the examples of the

U.K.F.C.B.S. and the Cage Bird Club ; they endeavoured to

imitate the good points of each, and also tried to avoid what

they believed to be the defects of these Societies.



ZOO NOTES.



By J. Lewis Bonhote.

X.—JUNE.


June 1 Occipital Blue Pie— Urocissa occipitalis


West Himalayas.


,, 2 Brown Mock Thrush— Harporhynchus rmpis


N. America.


Chough— Pyrrhocorax gracuius


Brit. Isles.


,,53 Goshawks— Asturpalumbari-us


Europe.


,, 8 Allen’s Porpliyrio— Hydrornis alleni


Captured at Sea.


Little Egret— Ardea garzetta N. Africa.


,, 11 Orinoco Goose —Chenalopex jubatus


S. America.


Little Guan— Ortalis motmot Guina.



W. Aviary.


Crows’ Cages.

W. Aviary.


E. Aviary.


Duck Ponds.

E. Aviary.



(d) I mean, of course, the old Cage Bird Club, with which Mr. W. H. Betts was indentified.



