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favour of aviaries. Such an argument appears to me inadmissible. Any¬

body who loves birds, and who has his heart in his work and his object,

can look after a very great number of cages, and unless we chose to give

wholehearted attention to our captives personally', or to find others who do

so for us without for ever weighing the trouble which is involved by

attention to this or that detail, we should not keep any birds or any' captive

animals at all. Aug.. F. Wiener.



PRIVATE ADVERTISEMENTS.


Sir, —The idea put forward in the April number of the Magazine

that private advertisements should be accepted up to the 26th of each

month, would, I am sure, be a great boon to members and well worth the

extra expense. Nicholas S. O’Reiiay.


[Several other members write to much the same effect. Ed.]



SPECIAL NOTICE TO MEMBERS.



There are a great many, the majority in fact, of our members who

rarely, if ever, contribute papers for publication in our journal, although

they have probably kept and studied birds for years and must have made

many interesting observations on their habits. We should like to impress

upon these members that it is not necessary", as some seem to imagine,

to wait until they have accomplished some great feat in aviculture,

such as breeding a very rare species, before writing for our pages. All

interesting facts connected with birds should be recorded ; and no

member need be shy of writing.


Many of our members take photographs of birds, nests, or aviaries,

and the Editor will always be glad to receive such with a view to their

reproduction.


There are other ways also in which members can help the Society'and

its Magazine, one of the chief of which is to induce other bird-lovers to

join our ranks, for the larger the membership the better will be the

Magazine that we give them month by month, and in order to help forward

the Society in this direction it has been decided to present each member,

other than an officer of the Society, who shall propose two candidates for

election, with a bound volume of the Avictdtural Magazine, which shall be

sent as soon as the candidates have been elected and paid their fees. Both

candidates need not be proposed in the same month, the offer remains open

until the 31st of December next. If four candidates should be proposed by

the same member two volumes will be presented to him. The volumes can

be selected from Vols. 2, 5, 6 or 7 of the First Series.


Finally we would remind our members that the Illustration Fund

which was started some time ago is still open, and donations will be most

thankfully received by the Honorary' Secretary. We have, at the present

time, to acknowledge with many thanks a donation of £2 to this fund from

Mr. L. W. Horton.



