' Avicultural Magazine''' and "Bird Notes" 265 
l)irdroom. in a compartment three feet square by six feet 
high, a pair of Tric/ioglossus rubritorques have successfully 
reared one young bird — full details next month. 
Birds of Paradise: On September ist there were 
placed on deposit at the London Zoo a number of the lovely 
Wilson's Bird of Paradise (Sc/ilegeiia wilsoni), which had 
been collected and brought over by Mr. Pratt. All are in 
good condition and should do well. 
^Melba Finch: Mr. H. Willford has had a good 
season and has had one young bird of this species fully reared. 
*Brown-eared Conure (C. ocularis): Mr, W. Shore 
Baily has young of this species on the wing. 
*First time in captivity. 
ERRATA. 
The title to illustration on page 214 should read: Nest and eggs 
of Bearded-Tit. 
Under Late News on page 236, " Senegal Parrot (L. Senegal)" 
should read : Senegal Parrot {/■'. senegalus). 
Dr Lovell-Keays informs us that his White-eyes were unfortunately 
wrongly identified and that they are Zosterops viren^ not Z. viridis. Thus 
Zosteropi viridis on pages 143, 162, and 197 of current volume, should 
read Zosterops virens in each instance. 
♦ 
"Avicultural Magazine" and "Bird Notes," 
Mr. H. D. Astley, the Editor of our contemporary, publishing an 
article in their current issue, in which he reviews the position of the 
" Avicultural Magazine " and its objects, and also deals similarly witli the 
inception of " Foreign Bird Notes " (now " Bird Notes "), and seems to 
imply that the present character of " Bird Notes " is not consistent with some 
supposed pledge or undertakmg given fourteen years ago, when the Foreign 
Bird Club was started. 
I, myself, am not the one to reply to that part of the matter (most 
probably Mr. Fillmer, the founder of the Society will do so), but really 
any undertaking such as hinted at is absurd, for two more societies might 
be launched at once, having similar objects and aims, and neither the 
Avicultural Society, nor the Foreign Bird Club could complain. 1 have 
searched back, and there is nothing in the constitution of the F.B.C. to 
limit the scope of the club in any direction whatever (save to the interests; 
of birdkeepers). Moreover, as " B.N." is now nearing the completion of 
its fourteenth volume, it is hopelessly out of date to enter a protest. The 
facts are these : — 
The Foreign Bird Exhibitors' League was started in 189S and was 
intended to be a Society of Exhibitors only. 
In 1901 it changed its name and became The Foreign Bird Ci.ub, 
its objects being the same as they are to-day, viz. : Mutual aid and 
encouragement in the keeping and breeding of birds, and to improve the 
conditions of the exhibiting of Foreign Birds. To secure this " Foreign 
Bird Notes," the Club Journal, was commenced with very small beginnings. 
In 1903 another alteration took place, the scope of the Club was 
■extended to include British species, and the name of the Club Journal was 
altered to " Bird Notes." 
The standing of the Club is practically the same to-day, and its rapid 
progress has certainly justified its existence. 
