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The L.C.B.A. Show.



—one cock that lived over a year at the Zoo recently never showed

any green. One of the Purple Sunbirds, out of colour, but very

strong and lively, was third ; it seemed to be showing off, raising

and expanding its tail. Mr. Townsend’s magnificent veteran

Yellow-winged Sugar-bird was fourth, and a v.li.c. went to that

gentleman’s Jerdon’s Green Bulbul ( Chlotopsis jerdoni), a lovely

hen. This species is very rare in aviculture, even in India I

never saw it alive that I remember, but Mr. Harper sent a cock

to the Zoo that lived there for years, and somewhere about 1903 I

saw another hen at Abraham’s establishment. The cock is like a

Gold-fronted (C. aurift oils) without the gold front; the hen is all

green but for a turquoise throat-patch. There were also two fine

cock Hardwicke’s Green Bulbul (C. hardwickii ) in this class,

besides a Banana Quit, a Rufous-throated Sugar-bird—formerly

called a Tanager ( Glossopti/a ruficollis ) and two cock Dacnis, one

the common cayana, and the other I think D. nigripes, as it had

the dark (instead of flesh-coloured) feet characteristic of that

species, but it was smaller than cayana instead of larger as the

British Museum catalogue measurements make it. It was shown

by Mr. Townsend, and might well have got more than li.c. if

recognised as a distinct species, which I admit was difficult at

first sight. An Indian White-eye (Zosterops palpebrosa') bred this

year by Mr. W. T. Page, and shown by Miss L- Clare, was an

interesting exhibit, and took “commended.”


The next class was a fine mixed collection, being for

Shamas, Starlings, Troupials, Jays, and other hardy soft-bills.

Mr. Pauwel’s Long-crested Mexican Jays were first, and deserved ;

they seem to be Cyanocitta diademata. They were smaller than

the English Jay, with daik, long-crested head, white eye-marks,

and blue body—plumage barred with black on wings and tail.

A Shama was second, and a Larger Hill Mynah third, a Glossy

Starling fourth.


The class for “all other species not comprised in the

above” was well filled, and, as might be expected, particularly

interesting and numbered nearly two dozen. A splendid Raggi’s

Paradise-bird ( Paiadisea raggiana) shown by M. Pawvels, natur¬

ally took first; Mrs. Miller’s Japanese Redbreast ( Eri/hacus

alsahige ) was second, but I piefet red Mr. Ezra’s specimen of the



