8 The L.C.B.A. Show. 
The flamclike crest that you so proudly raise, 
Though you have flaunted it thei-e myriad days, 
Has ne'er 'been lifted for a female's praise. 
The plumes that you have preened and kept so neat 
You have but tended for your own conceit 
Not for the winning of some dearer sweet. 
Musings like these may possibly have stirred 
Youi- inmost soul — although it seems absurd, 
They being suited to a younger bird. 
Still, even with the old are moments when 
Such feeling's touch them — lightly — now and then; 
Though you for all I know may be a hen. Dum-Dum. 
I must perforce call a halt here, as this issue could 
easily be filled with notes of the many beautiful species staged 
by members of the F.B.C., for, as already stated in my opening 
remarks, over eighty per cent, of the foreign bird entries were 
from our members and I must congratulate them on the many 
beautiful and unique specimens they possess, also on the con- 
dition they keep them in. I must now pass on to the res- 
pective classes, as the briefest review with awards nmst 
occupy considerable space. 
Mr. F. Finn judged classes 169 to' 176, and Mr. D. 
Seth Smith the remainder; some of the placings occasioned 
much criticism. 
16'J. Cockatoos and Macaws (4): Nothing new was 
staged, but the four exhibits were all well put down and in 
good plumage. 
1 and 4, C. Eoehl, Leadbeatei-'s and Small Sulphur -crested 
Cockatoos; 2, S. Williams, Ducorps' Cockatoo; 3, Mrs. Newmarsh, 
Red and Yellow Macaw. 
170. Geey aa^d Amazon Pakkots (9): Tlie mo.st 
uncommon bird here was Salvin's Amazon, but this individual 
was not as tight in plumage as it might have been; the 
majority of the exhibits were Blue -fronted Amazons, and it 
was interesting to note the variability of plumage with this 
species, no two being alike and the extremes looking as if 
they belonged to some other species. Nearly the whole were 
in excellent plumage. 
1, J. Schliiter, Grey Parrot; 2, Mrs. E. Johnston, Blue- 
fronted Amazon; 3 Eev. G. H. Raynor, Grey Parrot; 4, Mrs. R. 
Lupton, Blue-front; 5, L. M. Wade, Salvin's Amazon; <!, Vipend, 
Blue-front; 7, Rapson, Gi-ey PaiTOt. 
171. LovEBiEDS ANi> BiiuToaiiiiVs (10): Au inter- 
