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Correspondence.



THE SOCIETY’S MEDAL.



The following medals were awarded :—


Mr. W. E. Teschemaker for breeding the Scaly Einch, Crested Lark,

Black Redstart, Whinchat, and the Sprosser Nightingale.


Dr. Amsler for breeding the Hooded Siskin.


Miss Drummond for breeding the Great Eclectus.


Mr. H. D. Astley for breeding the Hooded Parrakeet.


If any member is acquainted with previous cases of the

breeding' in captivity of the above-mentioned birds, he would oblige

the Council by forwarding particulars to the Hon. Secretary before

March 15th. _



THE SOCIETY’S TEA.


It was decided to give a friendly and informal tea to members

of the Society in the Zoological Gardens after the summer meeting

of the Society in the latter half of June of this year, the exact date

and other particulars to be announced in the number of the Maga¬

zine issued in May. R. I. POCOCK,


Hon. Business Secretary.



CORRESPONDENCE, NOTES, &c.


CONTRIBUTIONS NEEDED.


Will members very kindly do their best to send articles and notes? I

must have sufficient copy in hand to carry on the Magazine with any success.


BLUE BUDGERIGARS BREEDING IN A CAGE.


My pair of Blue Budgerigars, when I moved my birds from Berkshire to

Herefordshire last October, were put in a small cage, in my new bird-room, for

the winter. The hen laid a clutch of four eggs in a very short time after the

move, two of which were hatched. The eggs were laid anyhow on the drawer of

the cage, which was covered with sawdust, but the birds scratched that away, so

that the eggs were on the bare wood, and were repeatedly rolled about from one

end of the cage to the other. Except for the female, who performed the incu¬

bating, coming off her eggs when the daily food was given and for feeding, she

never left them. There were eight days between the birth of the two young ones,



