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Editorial. 
Female: Similar but colours not so intense, tlu; yellows being 
paler aiiil ujipar phiraag'e more greenish, \v!th the forehead lilackisli- 
bi'own. ' ■' ; 
Mr. U-oodf;hil(l'.s chai'acteristic drawing- gives an excellent 
idea of the general colour pattern, and if the dai'kest parts are taken, 
to rei-reseiit black tingled with green, medium parts greenish -brown, 
and the light pai'ts canary yellow, a good general idea of Ihe coloura- 
tion is gleaned. 
This species lias been an occupant of English aviaries 
for the past three years, but has not yet been bred in cap- 
tivity and there have been several short notes concerning its 
demeanour in " Bird Notes." 
I have included the above as a sort of companion sketch to the 
note on the Sikhim Siskin, which appears in our report of the 
L.C.B.A. Show on page 3 of this issue. 
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Editorial. 
The Magazine: In the closing down of one volume 
and the commencing of another, there is not only the retro- 
spective view, but the prospective as well; the past is done 
with, but the present and future are with us and before us. We 
cannot enter upon a fresh period, at least your Editor cannot, 
without some aspirations not merely to equal but to go " one 
better" than the past. This is our position as regards the 
new volume of Bird Notes of which this is the first issue; 
while our desire is to keep up bulk, number of plates, etc., 
it is not quantity alone that tells — yet, how can we go for- 
ward? We think, this must be by more taking a personal 
interest in their Club Journal— there are more than 75 p^'r 
cent, of our members who never eontribufe to its cofitents^and 
sending accounts of their birdrooms, aviaries (and birds) and the 
many episodes that must occur in them. By becoming more 
observant of the birds we keep, noting every fact, studying 
cause and effect — our observation and- its records cannot be too 
detailed— \i is on these lines that we can go forward and make 
the matter in oui' Journal of more permanent interest in the 
future than in the past. Your Editor certainly hopes that 
there will be many new contributors during the year and, 
that all the contributors to the past volume will be equally 
zealous for the present one. , 
What has been achieved in the past, has only l.;een 
