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Council for the year 1904-5.


List of Members ... ... ... ... ... ... 1


Rules of the Avicultural Society ... ... ... ... 16


The Society’s Medal ... ... ... ... ... 19


The European Goldfinch (zvi'tk coloured plate')


by J Lewis Bonhote, M.A. 21

The Himalayan Goldfinch, by Frank Finn, B.A. ... ... 24


The Nesting- of Eraser’s Touracou ( illustrated ', by Mrs. Johnstone... 26

Recollections of some Bird Friends, by Miss D. Hamilton ... 30


Breeding- Passerine Parrotlets, by John Watson... ... ... 34


The Yellow Budgerigar, by the Rev. C. D. Farrar ... ... 35


Notes on My Birds, by Mrs. Howard Williams... ... ... 39


Bird Notes from the Zoological Gardens ... ... ... 42


Correspondence, Notes, etc. —



The Red-capped Parrot, 23 ; Short-eared Owls Breeding in

Hampshire, 42 ; Failure of Canaries to rear young pseudo¬

finches, 42 ; The Nesting-habits of Brush Turkeys, 43 ; The Red-

backed Shrike, 44 ; Notes from Tasmania, 45 ; Golden-breasted

Waxbills breeding, 46 ; Notes from Australia—Hybrids between

the Lyre-bird and common Fowl, 46; Zebra-finch feeding

young- Golden-breasted Waxbills, 46 ; A F’infoot in

The Management of the Avicultural Society, 48 ;

firymna, 53.


Election of the Council

The Illustration Fund

Post-mortem Examinations



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