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and the\' r are of a most peaceable nature. The little flock I have

live in perfect happiness together.


I must apologise, before concluding, to the older members,

that these notes may in part be what I wrote about for the

Magazine years ago, but the Society has greatly changed since

then, there are so many fresh members, that I hope I may be

forgiven, as these are chiefly written for them and for beginners in

aviculture.


If every member would keep an aviary log-book and just

jot down each day any little observation on the birds, the

information so obtained would be of great value to the cause of

aviculture in general, and no bird-keeper who loves his birds

knows, till he has tried it, how interesting it is to read his

old aviary records and compare the days of the past with the

record of the present.



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With the June number of British Birds the second volume

commences and the Editors are already in a position to offer an

attractive programme for the months to come : articles by Messrs.

Boyd Alexander, E. Bidwell, J. E- Bonhote, W. H. Kirkman,

Commander H. Eynes, W. M. J. Nicoll and Prof. Eloyd Morgan

being promised.


In the present number Mr. W. H. Mullens gives an account

of some early British Ornithologists and their works ; Messrs.

Robert Newstead and T. A. Coward describe an example of

Sclilegel’s Petrel, a new British and European bird found dead

under a tree near Tarporley, Cheshire, on the 1st of April of the

present year. Mr. Heatley Noble explains the means of

identification of the various species of Ducks’ eggs, and Messrs.

Witlierby and Ticehurst continue their account of the additions

to our knowledge of British Birds since 1899.


Among the Notes Mr. G. M. Beresford Webb refers to a

notice in last month’s number respecting the shooting of a Nut¬

cracker in Kent and states that one escaped from his aviaries

three days previously. It would be interesting if we could have



