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Poit Mortem Reports. 
seeing that the four birds cost me in all less than the lowest price asked for 
a Tanager, I have asked myself once again why we buy costlj' foreigners 
when we have such delightful (and cheap) British and European species. 
That the Alpine Accentor is interesting may be inferred from the fact that 
it has been classed with the Larks, llie Warblers, the Wagtails and the 
Accentors. Of the species practically nothing is known in this country 
from an avicultural point of view, and even its habits seem !iot to have been 
well observed ; for instance it is said to run and uot to hop, whereas my 
biids hop and walk but do not run. My Snow-finches on the other hand 
run with great rapidity and do not hop. This Accentor is delightfull}' tame 
and has a pretty, warbling song. For an account of its habits and nest- 
ing see Zool. 1S93, p. 309, and 189S, p. 475. The Snow Finch has a feeble 
song, but is a very handsome bird and is constantly on the wing. 
W.E.T. 
The well-known dealer J)e Von has recently received a very fine pair 
of the rare Himalayan Blue Flycatcher. S.M.T. 
Just on going to press we learn that one of our members has been 
offered a White-eared Sunbird. W.T.P. 
post flDorteiu IReports. 
{Vide Rules). 
For lejilie.s l>y post, a fee of 2 o mn\t br .sent ; tliis legulatioii will not be broken uiidtr 
any condition. 
Ans-Lvered by post : Miss Cope Proctor. 
YiU.T.ow Wagtail. (H. V. Johnson). Cause of death, pneumonia. 
(W. J. Lewis). Cause of death, pneumonia. 
Hen Canauy. (Miss M. Gibbons). Cause of death, Canary fever. 
WhiTK Java. (Mrs. 15. W. Hodgkins). Cause of death, piieumonia. 
Canary. (Mrs. Rogerson). Cause of death, bird fever. 
Hknry Gray, M.R.C.V^S. 
