The International Cage Bird Show.



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rarer greater double-collared Sunbird as well as a fine specimen of

the Lesser Double-collared. Mr. Ezra’s lovely Minla, small Minivet,

and Rufous-bellied Niltava, although these birds have appeared on

the show-bench before, were none the less worth seeing.


Lady Kathleen Pilkington sent a beautiful pair of Black-

chinned Yuhinas, charming little Himalayan birds with perky crests,

and also a lovely Blue-headed Tanager, strangely resembling the

Rufous-bellied Niltava in colouring, though rather smaller in size.


Mr. C. T. Maxwell showed a Red Sunbird (yellow rumped) in

fine colour and condition, worthy of premier honours, but unfortun¬

ately having to compete against the Humming Birds, as well as the

rarer Greater Double-collared Sunbird. Mrs. Algernon Bourke’s pair

of Purple Sugar Birds was very good too.


Miss M- Bousfield’s Festive Tanager and Mr. 0. J. Stone’s

Necklace Tanager were both good birds, losing nothing in beauty by

reason of their having been seen before.


In the class for Starlings, Jays, etc., Mr. A. Silver exhibited a

gorgeous pair of Purple-headed Glossy Starlings, which took first

prize to Mr. J. Frostick’s Blue and Black Yucatan Jay, which

received second. In this class there were exhibits of Chinese Rosy

Starlings, Mrs. Thynne being awarded the premier honours of that

group (3rd prize), her bird being decidedly a finer specimen and cleaner

too perhaps than the others, which were two pairs. But all these

birds deserved some attention, although as is often the case, all could

not equally receive it. To notice other exhibits in detail, there is

neither space nor time, birds such as Mr. A. Ezra’s King Paradise

Bird, Mr. W. A. Shepherd’s American Blue Bird (an old favourite,

now scarely ever seen) Dr. L. Lovell-Iveay’s pair of Hooded Siskins

(incorrectly described as Columbian), Mr. VY. Frost’s Peter’s Spotted

Fire Finch, Dr. Lovell-Keay’s Rainbow Bunting, and also Mr. C. T.

Maxwell’s, etc., etc., besides many Grassfinches and Waxbills,

familiar to aviculturists, but always charming


Perhaps we should also specially notice Mr. A. Ezra’s pair of

Himalayan Orange-headed Bullfinches, which won well, as they

deserved to, since it was the first appearance of this species on the

show bench.


Amongst the British Birds there were many worth looking



