NOVEMBER, 1905.



NEW SERIES. Tho price of this


Vol. IV. No. 1. number is 3 s



THE JOURNAL OF THE AVICULTURAL SOCIETY.



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O ffice's for the year 1905-6.


List of Members ... ... ... . . 1


Rules of the Avicultural Society ... ... ... ... . 15


The Society’s Medal ... ... ... ... ... ... ... . 19


The Black-throated Lorikeet, by W. A. Harding, F.Z.S.


[with coloured plate) 21


A Tame Tuipara Parrakeet, by the Rev. Hubkrt D. AStley, M.A.

Successful Breeding of Forsten's Lorikeet, by Mrs. Michkll

C age Birds in Frankfurt Zoological Gardens,


by E. G. B. Meadk-Waldo, F.Z.S., M.B.O.U

The Breeding of King Parrakeets, by Albert J. Sai.ter ...


Nesting of the Pileated Finch, by Mrs. Howard Williams


The Common-sense of Bird Protection .


New Bird House at the New York Zoological Park


Reviews Strange Pets ” .


“Animals of No Importance”


“I go a-walking ”...


“How birds propose” .


Correspondence, Notes, etc.—


The decreased prices of birds, 42 ; The age to which birds live,


43 ; The Crimson-breasted Grosbeak, 43 ; Successful nesting of the

White-throated Finch and St. Helena Waxbill, 44 ; Notes on the

Wild Canary, 45 ; “Consumption” in birds, 46; Mutations in birds,


48; The Illustration Fund, 49; The Society’s Medal, 49.


Post mortem Examinations ... ... ... .. ... ... ... ... 50



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