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Editorial.



by its parents, since they were the only inmates of the enclosure.

A great disappointment after having actually hatched a chick. Next

time it may he advisable to take the egg away shortly before it is

due to hatch and place it in an incubator and attempt to hand-rear

the young bird.


The Brush-turkeys have been transferred to a new enclosure,

formed by wiring in a fairly large piece of the canal bank at the

western end of the North Garden, and the stock Iras been increased

by the addition of four birds, presented by the Duke of Bedford,

President of the Zoological Society. They should do well in this

enclosure, where they will have ample opportunity of constructing

their nesting mounds. D. S-S.



EDITORIAL.


Several members have kindly promised, in response to my

appeal, to send articles and notes for the Magazine; but I still want

more ‘ copy,’ so that I need not as Editor live, as it were, from hand

to mouth ; begging my way along the hard high road from month to

month, with only just enough, and perhaps sometimes barely that,

to keep me going. I ought not to have to go out into the highways

and the hedges, I ought not to be forced to knock at members’ doors

to tell them I have not sufficient to last me out; or, worse still, to

receive so meagre a supply that I must hurriedly pick up what I can

on my own account.


And besides food for the Magazine, I want money. Money

beyond the yearly subscriptions; for otherwise our illustrations

cannot be what they should. Let me have sufficient for the

Treasurer — Mr. THOMASSET, who has kindly undertaken that office

— sufficient for him to write : “ We can afford a coloured frontispiece

every month.” Quite small sums add up into big ones, and some

members can give larger ones straight away. The officers of the

Society are unpaid, so that those who have kindly given in the past

to an Editor’s stipend, can transfer that money to other expenses

which are necessarily incurred.


Let us all work to keep up the standard of our Magazine, and

remember that the Avicultural Society was founded for “the study



