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Avadavat or Auiandava, 12s. per pair.


Waxbills, African 10s. per pair. Waxbills, St. Helena 12s. per pair.


Ditto, Orange-clieeked 12s. per pair.


Ditto, Zebra or Orange-breasted 12s. per pair.


Ditto, Australian ditto ^1 per pair.


It will be seen that in those days there were no cheap foreign birds ;

nor even when I first took up aviculture were there very many : I paid

Abrahams £l for my first pair of Grey Singing-finches.


Probably in a comparatively short time it will surprise bird-owners to

discover that the Gouldian Finch when first imported by Abrahams, realized

£10 per pair and Bathilda ruficaicda £8 (a year later I gave £2 for a pair,

and now ios. per pair is an average price: it has gone lower).—A.G.B.



OFFICERS FOR THE YEAR 1905-6.



Messrs. Bertling and Castle-Sloaue having been temporarily elected

by the Council to replace Messrs. Sergeant and Finn, who had resigned

during the year; the Council now proposes them as candidates for per¬

manent election. Also, in accordance with Rule VIII., it is proposed that

Miss R. Alderson and the Rev. C. D. Farrar retire from the Council, and

that Mr. E. G. B. Meade-Waldo and Mr. W. P. Pvcraft be elected in their

stead.


Mr. W. L. Horton has also been elected by the Council as Auditor and

Mr. J. B. Housden as Scrutineer.


At the Council Meeting (held by kind permission of the Zoological

Society at 3, Hanover Square on Aug. 18th), certain necessary amendments

to the rules were proposed and agreed to.



THE SOCIETY’S MEDAL.



Mr. Seth-Smith having successfully bred the Varied Bustard-Ouail

(Turnix varia ) it is proposed to award him a medal. Any member or

reader knowing of a previous instance, is requested to communicate

immediately with the Hon. Business Secretar}-.



ILLUSTRATION FUND.



The Council acknowledges with thanks a donation of one pound to

the above fund from the Rev. S. A. Vardon.



