GO 
Club Meetings at the British Museum. 
to British a l ieultui'e, more partieulafly pei'liaps among the 
Waxbills, amply demonstrating that largely as the Afrk-an avi- 
fauna \vA\i been imported, there is yet a large field open to 
the enterprising collector for the introduction of species new to 
aviculture to the English market. The skin of an albino Grey 
Waxbill {Estrilda cinerea) was also an object of much in- 
terest, the whole plumage being white except for the crimson 
eyt; -streak and rosy patches in the centre of abdomen and at 
the vent. 
A very pleasant and interesting afternoon was con- 
cluded by those present— Misses A. S. Eccles, E. M. Knobel, 
Mrs. k. L. Miller, and Messrs. H. Uoodchild, W. T. Page, 
W. T. Rogers, A. Silver, S. M. Townsend, C. R. Tyson, and 
S. Williams — taking tea together. 
The next meeting will be on Saturday, February 21st, 
when we hope to have the pleasure of looking through the 
Flycatcher (Mu&cicapidae) series of skins. Rendezvous: 
Entrance Hall, 2-15 p.m. W. T. ROGERS. 
♦ 
Correspondence. 
THE EED-BEEA8TED ELY CATCHER. 
Sir, — Your note oii (ho Red-breask'd Elyc^atclicr li:is caused mc to 
look up the species, in so I'ar as it comes into thy Indian area ; it is a 
species I know well — in fact I shot and skinned a male only two or 
three days before the arrival of Bird Notes. Eirst of all I find in 
the " Eauna of British India," — Birds, Vol. II., p. 9, (he following: 
"The young are spotted on the upper plumage and breast with fulvous. 
After the autumn moult young males commence to assume some red on 
the breast, and they become fully adult by the spring." This does not, 
agree with Howard Saunder's statement (as given in your note), from 
which I gather the bird tccomes fully adult by the third \car. Here is a 
chance for the practical aviculturist — breudiug a ilillirult sjiciics to solve 
a disputea point ! 
By way of a j)ei:' on whirh (u hang own few notes I will 
start by quoting the valuable account given by Capt. AVhitchrad in his 
"Birds of Kohat and Kurram " (^Ibis, 191)9): 
' Major Magrath has made the following notes on the species : 
