NEW SERIES.



MONTHLY.



FEBRUARY, 1904.



voi. ii. No 4 Price i s 6 d -



THE JOURNAL OF THE AVICULTURAL SOCIETY.



B





CONTENTS.O-



Guilding’s Amazon Parrot {with coloured plate )


by the Honble. and Rev. Canon Dutton



A Ramble in Ceylon, by Russell Hdmphkys ...


The Malabar Thrush, by Miss Fitz-Grrald

The Pectoral or White-breasted Finch...


Bird Notes from the Zoological Gardens

Nesting Notes on the African Silverbill

Bengalese as Cage-Birds


Sir Charles Lawes-Wittewrouge’s Black Cockatoos

Recent Publications...


CORRESPONDENCE, NOTES, ETC.—


Further Notes on Carolina Ducks, 139 : Hybrid Munias, 140 :

Feather plucking, 140 : The Tittle Lorikeet, 142 : Prices obtained

for live birds in 1856, 142 : Notes on Parrakeets, 143 : A good

heating apparatus for bird-rooms, 143 : The administration of

medicine to birds, 144 : Food for Jay, 144 : Bower Birds, 144.



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124


129


130


132 & I43


T 33


134


135

136-138



Balance Sheet for year ended 31st October, 1903...

Pott-mortem Examinations



...146-147


148



LONDON:


R. H. PORTER, 7, Princes St., Cavendish Square, W.

NOTE.—A new volume commences every November.



